Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1905

1844

1837

1902
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 hands

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

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

Third-person

It varies

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

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

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

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

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

Healing

Aging

Neglect
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Quatrains

Sextets

Octaves

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

ABAB

ABBA

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

A dead tree

A pile of leaves

A frozen lake
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her poetic ability

Her current depression

Her former beauty and happiness

Her good penmanship
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Paints their image on the mind."

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"But that lock of silky hair,"
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

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
14 What is the poem's genre?
Victorian poetry

War epic

Elizabethan poetry

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

Jane and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

Lydia and Mary
16 When was the poem originally written?
1848

1840

1837

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?
Cornwall

Thornton

Devonshire

London
18 How long is the poem?
Three stanzas

Two stanzas

Six stanzas

One stanza
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The speaker remembering an important detail

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The protagonist writing a letter
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?
Her lover

Her home

Her sense of self

Her family
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's fractured family

The woman's broken marriage

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

It organizes them into four-line statements

It serves no practical purpose

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

A novel

A sonnet

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

The first stanza

The third stanza

Never
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Dour

Tragic

Wry

Rueful

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