Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?

1837

1902

1905

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

Spoil

Rip

Place carefully

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

A love letter

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

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

It varies

Second-person

First-person

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

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Grey

Shirley

Jane Eyre
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Mold and damp the face defile."
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Neglect

Memory

Healing

Aging
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Sextets

Quatrains

Octaves

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 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 poetic ability

Her former beauty and happiness

Her current depression

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

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"
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

Haiku

Elizabethan poetry

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

Anne and Charlotte

Lydia and Mary

Sylvia and Lavinia

Jane and Elizabeth
16 When was the poem originally written?

1837

1848

1905

1840
17 Where was Brontë born?

Cornwall

London

Devonshire

Thornton
18 How long is the poem?

Three stanzas

Two stanzas

One stanza

Six stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker vanishing from the story
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?

Her family

Her home

Her lover

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 makes them musical

It organizes them into four-line statements

It limits Brontë's word choice

It serves no practical purpose
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?

A birthday card

A novel

A love letter

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

The third stanza

The second stanza

Never

The first stanza
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Wry

Dour

Tragic

Rueful

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