Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?

1837

1905

1902

1844
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?

File away

Place carefully

Rip

Spoil
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

A love letter

The woman's hands
4 What is the perspective of the poem?

It varies

Third-person

Second-person

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

Agnes Grey

Jane Eyre

Shirley

Wuthering Heights
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"Paints their image on the mind."

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Neglect

Aging

Healing

Memory
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Octaves

Sextets

Quatrains

Couplets
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAC

ABAB

ABCB

ABBA
10 To what does the speaker compare the woman's faded beauty in the first stanza?

A dead tree

A pile of leaves

A frozen lake

A wilted flower
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?

Her poetic ability

Her former beauty and happiness

Her current depression

Her good penmanship
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"
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

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

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

The woman carries a locket around
14 What is the poem's genre?

Victorian poetry

Elizabethan poetry

Haiku

War epic
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Jane and Elizabeth

Lydia and Mary

Sylvia and Lavinia

Anne and Charlotte
16 When was the poem originally written?

1837

1848

1840

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?

Thornton

Cornwall

Devonshire

London
18 How long is the poem?

Two stanzas

Three stanzas

Six stanzas

One stanza
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker remembering an important detail
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?

Her sense of self

Her lover

Her family

Her home
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's fractured family
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?

It serves no practical purpose

It makes them musical

It organizes them into four-line statements

It limits Brontë's word choice
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?

A novel

A sonnet

A birthday card

A love letter
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?

The second stanza

The first stanza

The third stanza

Never
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Dour

Rueful

Wry

Tragic

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