Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1902

1905

1837

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

File away

Rip

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

The woman's hands

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

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

It varies

Third-person

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

Wuthering Heights

Shirley

Jane Eyre
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"

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

Neglect

Healing

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

Octaves

Quatrains

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

ABAB

ABCB

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

A pile of leaves

A frozen lake

A dead tree
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?
"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"
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?
Lydia and Mary

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Elizabeth

Sylvia and Lavinia
16 When was the poem originally written?
1905

1848

1837

1840
17 Where was Brontë born?
Thornton

Cornwall

Devonshire

London
18 How long is the poem?
One stanza

Six stanzas

Three stanzas

Two stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist looking into a mirror
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 broken marriage

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's fractured family

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 limits Brontë's word choice

It makes them musical

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 first stanza

The second stanza

The third stanza

Never
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Rueful

Tragic

Dour

Wry

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