Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?

1844

1837

1902

1905
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?

File away

Spoil

Place carefully

Rip
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?

A love letter

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's hands
4 What is the perspective of the poem?

First-person

Second-person

Third-person

It varies
5 What novel is Emily Brontë famous for writing?

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Shirley

Agnes Grey
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

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

Memory

Healing

Neglect

Aging
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Quatrains

Couplets

Sextets

Octaves
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAC

ABCB

ABBA

ABAB
10 To what does the speaker compare the woman's faded beauty in the first stanza?

A pile of leaves

A frozen lake

A dead tree

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

Her poetic ability

Her former beauty and happiness

Her good penmanship

Her current depression
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"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's former beloved remembers her fondly

The woman carries a locket around
14 What is the poem's genre?

Victorian poetry

War epic

Elizabethan poetry

Haiku
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Jane and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

Lydia and Mary

Sylvia and Lavinia
16 When was the poem originally written?

1837

1840

1848

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?

Cornwall

London

Thornton

Devonshire
18 How long is the poem?

Two stanzas

Six stanzas

Three stanzas

One stanza
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist writing a letter

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

Her family

Her sense of self

Her home

Her lover
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's fractured family
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?

It makes them musical

It serves no practical purpose

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 novel

A birthday card

A sonnet

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

Never

The second stanza

The third stanza

The first stanza
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Rueful

Tragic

Dour

Wry

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