Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1844

1902

1837

1905
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 faded beauty and happiness

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's hands

A love letter
4 What is the perspective of the poem?
Third-person

Second-person

It varies

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

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Grey

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

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"Paints their image on the mind."

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

Neglect

Healing

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

Octaves

Sextets

Quatrains
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAB

ABBA

ABCB

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

A dead tree

A frozen lake

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,"

"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?
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

Traces of the woman's beauty suggest what she used to look like
14 What is the poem's genre?
Haiku

Victorian poetry

War epic

Elizabethan poetry
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Elizabeth

Lydia and Mary

Sylvia and Lavinia
16 When was the poem originally written?
1905

1837

1848

1840
17 Where was Brontë born?
Devonshire

Thornton

Cornwall

London
18 How long is the poem?
Two stanzas

One stanza

Six stanzas

Three stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The protagonist writing a letter

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker vanishing from the story

The speaker remembering an important detail
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?
Her home

Her sense of self

Her lover

Her family
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 financial troubles

The woman's fractured family
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?
It serves no practical purpose

It makes them musical

It organizes them into four-line statements

It limits Brontë's word choice
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?
Never

The third stanza

The first stanza

The second stanza
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Wry

Rueful

Tragic

Dour

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