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

File away

Rip

Place carefully
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?
The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's hands

A love letter

The woman's faded beauty and happiness
4 What is the perspective of the poem?
Second-person

Third-person

It varies

First-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?
"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Paints their image on the mind."
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Healing

Memory

Neglect

Aging
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Octaves

Sextets

Quatrains

Couplets
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAC

ABCB

ABAB

ABBA
10 To what does the speaker compare the woman's faded beauty in the first stanza?
A frozen lake

A pile of leaves

A dead tree

A wilted flower
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her good penmanship

Her poetic ability

Her former beauty and happiness

Her current depression
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?
Traces of the woman's beauty suggest what she used to look like

The woman carries a locket around

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

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

Victorian poetry

Haiku

War epic
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Sylvia and Lavinia

Anne and Charlotte

Lydia and Mary

Jane and Elizabeth
16 When was the poem originally written?
1905

1848

1840

1837
17 Where was Brontë born?
London

Thornton

Devonshire

Cornwall
18 How long is the poem?
Six stanzas

One stanza

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 lover

Her home

Her family

Her sense of self
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's financial troubles

The woman's fractured family

The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's broken marriage
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?
It limits Brontë's word choice

It serves no practical purpose

It organizes them into four-line statements

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

A sonnet

A love letter

A novel
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?
The first stanza

The third stanza

Never

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

Rueful

Dour

Wry

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