Cousin Kate Quizzes

Cousin Kate Quiz

1 To whom does the speaker address the poem's final lines?

Her husband

Her mother

Her cousin

Her son
2 Why does the lord prefer Kate to the speaker?

She is more intelligent

She is fairer

She is more trusting

She is wealthier
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABAB

ABCB

ABBA

ABAC
4 Which best describes the speaker at the start of the poem's events?

Cynical

Precocious

Selfless

Naive
5 Which homes do the speaker and lord respectively live in?

A hut and a villa

A bungalow and a mansion

A cottage and a palace

A studio apartment and a townhouse
6 Which of the following can be considered a symbol of the speaker's identity?

A silk scarf

The Dove

The Palace

Blond hair
7 Which of the following is a motif in this work?

Makeup

Furniture

Money

Clothing
8 Which of the following is an example of simile?

"Hardened by sun and air"

"He changed me like a glove"

"He lifted you from mean estate"

"Your love was writ in sand"
9 Which type of love is NOT explored in this work?

Sexual

Maternal

Familial

Divine
10 To whom does the speaker address the middle stanzas of the poem?

Kate

The lord

The neighbors

The son
11 Where is the poem set?

A Victorian boarding school

A medieval English town

Paris in the 1950s

A monastery in Spain
12 Which musical form does this poem mimic?

The spiritual

The hymn

The ballad

The rock song
13 The coronet is an example of which of the following?

Simile

Hyperbole

Metonymy

Onomatopoeia
14 Which type of stanzas make up this poem?

Sestet

Quaitrain

Quintain

Octet
15 Why does the speaker express anger at Kate?

For refusing to help around the house

For spreading rumors of her promiscuity

For trying to influence her son

For failing to defend her against the lord
16 Which is NOT a possible meaning of the word "fair" as used in this poem?

Light colored

Carnival

Just

Beautiful
17 How does Rossetti explore the theme of purity in this work?

By contrasting the purity of childhood with the jadedness of adulthood

By showing how her speaker is held to draconian standards of chastity

By discussing the purity and naivete of the aristocratic class

By demonstrating Kate's selfless moral purity in helping the speaker
18 What does the word "mean" most closely mean in this poem?

Humble

Average

Signify

Cruel
19 Which of the following themes is prominent in this poem?

Industrialization

Race

Power

War
20 Which of the following phrases contains alliteration?

"cling closer"

"wear his coronet"

"might have been a dove"

"among the rye"
21 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

Moan

Care

Sand

Sing
22 What does Rossetti subtly critique in this work?

Victorian sexual politics

The Vietnam war

Catholicism

Higher education
23 Which type of metrical foot is used?

Iambs

Spondees

Trochees

Dactyls
24 Which of the following can the dove NOT be said to signify?

Monogamy

Peace

Conformity

Freedom
25 What does the word "flaxen" most closely mean in this poem?

Natural

Harvested

Blond

Thatched

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