Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?

1905

1837

1902

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

File away

Spoil

Rip

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

The woman's photo in a locket

A love letter

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

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

Third-person

First-person

It varies

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."

"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"

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

Aging

Healing

Neglect

Memory
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Sextets

Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB

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

A pile of leaves

A wilted flower

A dead tree

A frozen lake
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?

Her current depression

Her good penmanship

Her former beauty and happiness

Her poetic ability
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"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'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?

Victorian poetry

Haiku

War epic

Elizabethan poetry
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Sylvia and Lavinia

Jane and Elizabeth

Lydia and Mary

Anne and Charlotte
16 When was the poem originally written?

1905

1840

1837

1848
17 Where was Brontë born?

Devonshire

Cornwall

Thornton

London
18 How long is the poem?

Six stanzas

One stanza

Two stanzas

Three stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker remembering an important detail

The speaker vanishing from the story

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

Her family

Her home

Her sense of self

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

The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's fractured family

The woman's financial troubles
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 love letter

A novel

A birthday card

A sonnet
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?

The first stanza

The third stanza

The second stanza

Never
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Rueful

Wry

Tragic

Dour

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