Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1902

1837

1905

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

Spoil

Rip

File away
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?
A love letter

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's hands

The woman's photo in a locket
4 What is the perspective of the poem?
It varies

Third-person

Second-person

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?
"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"But that lock of silky hair,"
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Neglect

Aging

Healing

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

Octaves

Quatrains

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

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
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 current depression

Her good penmanship

Her poetic ability

Her former beauty and happiness
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"
13 What does the line "Tells what once those features were" mean in the poem?
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

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

Sylvia and Lavinia

Lydia and Mary

Jane and Elizabeth
16 When was the poem originally written?
1848

1905

1840

1837
17 Where was Brontë born?
Thornton

Cornwall

Devonshire

London
18 How long is the poem?
Two stanzas

Three stanzas

Six stanzas

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

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The protagonist writing a letter

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

Her lover

Her sense of self

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

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's fractured family

The woman's broken marriage
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 sonnet

A novel

A love letter

A birthday card
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?
Tragic

Rueful

Dour

Wry

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