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?

Spoil

Place carefully

File away

Rip
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?

Second-person

It varies

First-person

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

Jane Eyre

Shirley

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Grey
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."
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

Quatrains

Couplets

Sextets
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCB

ABAC

ABBA

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

A wilted flower

A pile of leaves

A frozen lake

A dead tree
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?

Her good penmanship

Her current depression

Her former beauty and happiness

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

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"
13 What does the line "Tells what once those features were" mean in the poem?

The woman carries a locket around

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

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

A portrait of the woman shows what she looked like when she was younger
14 What is the poem's genre?

Elizabethan poetry

Haiku

War epic

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

Anne and Charlotte

Sylvia and Lavinia

Jane and Elizabeth

Lydia and Mary
16 When was the poem originally written?

1848

1905

1840

1837
17 Where was Brontë born?

Thornton

Cornwall

London

Devonshire
18 How long is the poem?

Three stanzas

One stanza

Two stanzas

Six stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker vanishing from the story
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 fractured family

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's suffering from time and neglect
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?

It serves no practical purpose

It limits Brontë's word choice

It organizes them into four-line statements

It makes them musical
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?

A sonnet

A novel

A birthday card

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

The first stanza

Never

The second stanza

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

Rueful

Tragic

Dour

Wry

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