Cousin Kate Quizzes

Cousin Kate Quiz

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

Her husband

Her son

Her cousin
2 Why does the lord prefer Kate to the speaker?
She is more intelligent

She is fairer

She is wealthier

She is more trusting
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB

ABAC

ABCB

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

Selfless

Precocious

Cynical
5 Which homes do the speaker and lord respectively live in?
A cottage and a palace

A hut and a villa

A studio apartment and a townhouse

A bungalow and a mansion
6 Which of the following can be considered a symbol of the speaker's identity?
The Dove

A silk scarf

The Palace

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

Furniture

Makeup

Money
8 Which of the following is an example of simile?
"He lifted you from mean estate"

"He changed me like a glove"

"Hardened by sun and air"

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

Maternal

Sexual

Familial
10 To whom does the speaker address the middle stanzas of the poem?
The lord

The son

The neighbors

Kate
11 Where is the poem set?
A medieval English town

A Victorian boarding school

Paris in the 1950s

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

The rock song

The spiritual

The hymn
13 The coronet is an example of which of the following?
Onomatopoeia

Metonymy

Simile

Hyperbole
14 Which type of stanzas make up this poem?
Sestet

Quintain

Octet

Quaitrain
15 Why does the speaker express anger at Kate?
For refusing to help around the house

For failing to defend her against the lord

For spreading rumors of her promiscuity

For trying to influence her son
16 Which is NOT a possible meaning of the word "fair" as used in this poem?
Carnival

Just

Light colored

Beautiful
17 How does Rossetti explore the theme of purity in this work?
By demonstrating Kate's selfless moral purity in helping the speaker

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

By discussing the purity and naivete of the aristocratic class

By contrasting the purity of childhood with the jadedness of adulthood
18 What does the word "mean" most closely mean in this poem?
Cruel

Signify

Humble

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

Power

Industrialization

War
20 Which of the following phrases contains alliteration?
"wear his coronet"

"cling closer"

"might have been a dove"

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

Sing

Care

Moan
22 What does Rossetti subtly critique in this work?
Higher education

Victorian sexual politics

Catholicism

The Vietnam war
23 Which type of metrical foot is used?
Spondees

Trochees

Iambs

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

Monogamy

Conformity

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

Harvested

Natural

Blond

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