Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1905

1837

1844

1902
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?
Rip

Place carefully

Spoil

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

The woman's hands

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's photo in a locket
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?
Jane Eyre

Agnes Grey

Wuthering Heights

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

"Paints their image on the mind."

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

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

Healing

Aging

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA

ABCB

ABAB

ABAC
10 To what does the speaker compare the woman's faded beauty in the first stanza?
A pile of leaves

A wilted flower

A frozen lake

A dead tree
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her poetic ability

Her current depression

Her former beauty and happiness

Her good penmanship
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"Paints their image on the mind."
13 What does the line "Tells what once those features were" mean in the poem?
The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

A portrait of the woman shows what she looked like when she was younger

The woman carries a locket around

Traces of the woman's beauty suggest what she used to look like
14 What is the poem's genre?
War epic

Haiku

Elizabethan poetry

Victorian 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?
1905

1837

1848

1840
17 Where was Brontë born?
Cornwall

Thornton

London

Devonshire
18 How long is the poem?
Three stanzas

One stanza

Six stanzas

Two stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The speaker vanishing from the story

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The protagonist writing a letter
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?
Her sense of self

Her home

Her lover

Her family
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 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 love letter

A sonnet

A novel

A birthday card
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

Tragic

Dour

Rueful

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