Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1902

1844

1837

1905
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?
Rip

Place carefully

Spoil

File away
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?
A love letter

The woman's hands

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's photo in a locket
4 What is the perspective of the poem?
Third-person

It varies

First-person

Second-person
5 What novel is Emily Brontë famous for writing?
Shirley

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Grey
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"Mold and damp the face defile."

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Healing

Neglect

Aging

Memory
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Octaves

Sextets

Quatrains

Couplets
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA

ABAB

ABAC

ABCB
10 To what does the speaker compare the woman's faded beauty in the first stanza?
A frozen lake

A wilted flower

A pile of leaves

A dead tree
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her current depression

Her poetic ability

Her former beauty and happiness

Her good penmanship
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Paints their image on the mind."

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"
13 What does the line "Tells what once those features were" mean in the poem?
A portrait of the woman shows what she looked like when she was younger

The woman carries a locket around

Traces of the woman's beauty suggest what she used to look like

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly
14 What is the poem's genre?
War epic

Haiku

Elizabethan poetry

Victorian poetry
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Lydia and Mary

Sylvia and Lavinia

Jane and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte
16 When was the poem originally written?
1840

1848

1905

1837
17 Where was Brontë born?
London

Devonshire

Cornwall

Thornton
18 How long is the poem?
Two stanzas

One stanza

Three stanzas

Six stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist writing a letter
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?
Her sense of self

Her family

Her lover

Her home
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's fractured family

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's financial troubles
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?
It serves no practical purpose

It organizes them into four-line statements

It limits Brontë's word choice

It makes them musical
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?
A birthday card

A love letter

A sonnet

A novel
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?
The first stanza

The third stanza

Never

The second stanza
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Dour

Wry

Rueful

Tragic

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