1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's artworks The daughter's thoughts The daughter's friends The daughter's anxieties 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares." "Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum," "Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool" 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Age and wisdom Rootedness in place Physical strength and size Sublime beauty 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Assonance Alliteration Onomatopoeia Metonymy 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined Beauty is something that increases with age and experience Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Octets Quatrains Sestets Quintains 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Blanket Curtain Eyelid Jar lid 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Brook Prayer Daydream Monument 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Stability Artistry Memorability Sublimity 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" "to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind" "the storm is howling" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABBACDDC ABABCDCD AABBCDDC ABACDCAB 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Spondaic Monometer Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Pentameter Iambic Trimeter 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Burdening Stopping Frightening Observing 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Hyperbole Synecdoche Understatement Simile 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence She is not yet born She is the same age as her mother was when she was born She is very young and asleep 16 What does the storm most closely symbolize? Agricultural abundance Nature's wrath Danger and extremes The changing seasons 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Cleopatra Queen Victoria Aphrodite Helen of Troy 18 Where is the poem set? A battlefield during World War I The Tower of London An Irish woodland Dublin in 1916 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Uncertain Mistrustful Upset Disorganized 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Politeness Nobility Bluntness Tradition 21 Which of the following is true of the poem? The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A version of W.B. Yeats himself A mother with a sick child A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A martyr for Irish independence before his execution 23 What is a linnet? A nightgown A baby A bird A candle 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Overstatement Heat Reason Generosity 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "though every face should scowl" "The soul recovers radical innocence" "let her think opinions are accursed." "May she be granted beauty"
