Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1837

1844

1902

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

Rip

Spoil

File away
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?
The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's hands

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

A love letter
4 What is the perspective of the poem?
First-person

Second-person

It varies

Third-person
5 What novel is Emily Brontë famous for writing?
Agnes Grey

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

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

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Healing

Aging

Neglect

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

Couplets

Octaves

Sextets
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCB

ABBA

ABAC

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

A dead tree

A pile of leaves

A wilted flower
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her former beauty and happiness

Her current depression

Her good penmanship

Her poetic ability
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"Paints their image on the mind."
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's former beloved remembers her fondly

The woman carries a locket around

Traces of the woman's beauty suggest what she used to look like
14 What is the poem's genre?
War epic

Elizabethan poetry

Victorian poetry

Haiku
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Sylvia and Lavinia

Anne and Charlotte

Lydia and Mary

Jane and Elizabeth
16 When was the poem originally written?
1837

1848

1905

1840
17 Where was Brontë born?
London

Devonshire

Cornwall

Thornton
18 How long is the poem?
Three stanzas

Six stanzas

Two stanzas

One stanza
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker remembering an important detail

The speaker vanishing from the story

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

Her sense of self

Her home

Her lover
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 limits Brontë's word choice

It makes them musical

It organizes them into four-line statements
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?
A birthday card

A novel

A sonnet

A love letter
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?
Never

The third stanza

The first stanza

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

Rueful

Dour

Tragic

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