Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1905

1844

1902

1837
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?
Place carefully

File away

Rip

Spoil
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?
The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's hands

The woman's photo in a locket

A love letter
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?
Agnes Grey

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

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

"Paints their image on the mind."

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"But that lock of silky hair,"
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Memory

Neglect

Aging

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

Sextets

Octaves

Quatrains
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 dead tree

A pile of leaves

A wilted flower

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

Her current depression

Her poetic ability

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

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"
13 What does the line "Tells what once those features were" mean in the poem?
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

The woman carries a locket around

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly
14 What is the poem's genre?
Elizabethan poetry

War epic

Haiku

Victorian poetry
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Jane and Elizabeth

Lydia and Mary

Anne and Charlotte

Sylvia and Lavinia
16 When was the poem originally written?
1840

1837

1848

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?
Devonshire

London

Thornton

Cornwall
18 How long is the poem?
One stanza

Six stanzas

Three stanzas

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

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist writing a letter
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 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 makes them musical

It organizes them into four-line statements

It serves no practical purpose

It limits Brontë's word choice
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?
A novel

A love letter

A birthday card

A sonnet
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?
The second stanza

The first stanza

Never

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

Wry

Rueful

Tragic

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