Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1902

1905

1844

1837
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?
File away

Rip

Place carefully

Spoil
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?
The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's photo in a locket

A love letter

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

First-person

Second-person

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

Jane Eyre

Shirley

Wuthering Heights
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"But that lock of silky hair,"

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Mold and damp the face defile."
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Memory

Aging

Healing

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

Sextets

Quatrains

Octaves
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 dead tree

A wilted flower

A frozen lake

A pile of leaves
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her good penmanship

Her former beauty and happiness

Her current depression

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

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"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?
The woman carries a locket around

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

Traces of the woman's beauty suggest what she used to look like

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

Haiku

War epic

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

Lydia and Mary

Anne and Charlotte

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

1905

1837

1840
17 Where was Brontë born?
Devonshire

London

Thornton

Cornwall
18 How long is the poem?
Two stanzas

One stanza

Three stanzas

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

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist writing a letter

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

Her lover

Her family

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

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's fractured family

The woman's financial troubles
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?
It organizes them into four-line statements

It makes them musical

It limits Brontë's word choice

It serves no practical purpose
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?
A novel

A sonnet

A love letter

A birthday card
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?
Rueful

Tragic

Wry

Dour

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