Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1837

1902

1905

1844
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?
Rip

File away

Place carefully

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

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's hands

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

First-person

It varies

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

Shirley

Jane Eyre

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

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."

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

Memory

Healing

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

Couplets

Sextets

Octaves
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 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 good penmanship

Her poetic ability

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?
The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

The woman carries a locket around

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
14 What is the poem's genre?
Victorian poetry

War epic

Haiku

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

Sylvia and Lavinia

Anne and Charlotte

Lydia and Mary
16 When was the poem originally written?
1837

1840

1848

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?
Thornton

Cornwall

London

Devonshire
18 How long is the poem?
Two stanzas

Six stanzas

One stanza

Three stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The protagonist looking into a mirror

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker remembering an important detail

The speaker vanishing from the story
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?
Her lover

Her family

Her sense of self

Her home
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's broken marriage

The woman's fractured family

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's suffering from time and neglect
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?
It organizes them into four-line statements

It serves no practical purpose

It limits Brontë's word choice

It makes them musical
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 first stanza

The second stanza

Never

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

Rueful

Tragic

Dour

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