Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1902

1905

1837

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

File away

Rip

Place carefully
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?
A love letter

The woman's hands

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's faded beauty and happiness
4 What is the perspective of the poem?
First-person

It varies

Third-person

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

Shirley

Agnes Grey

Jane Eyre
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Mold and damp the face defile."

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

Aging

Memory

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

Quatrains

Couplets

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

ABBA

ABAB

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

A wilted flower

A dead tree

A pile of leaves
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her former beauty and happiness

Her poetic ability

Her current depression

Her good penmanship
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"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

Victorian poetry

Haiku

Elizabethan poetry
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

1905

1840

1848
17 Where was Brontë born?
Thornton

London

Cornwall

Devonshire
18 How long is the poem?
Six stanzas

Two stanzas

One stanza

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

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist looking into a mirror
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?
Her home

Her lover

Her family

Her sense of self
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's fractured family

The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's broken marriage
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?
It organizes them into four-line statements

It serves no practical purpose

It makes them musical

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 third stanza

The first stanza

Never
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Rueful

Tragic

Wry

Dour

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