Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1905

1902

1837

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

File away

Spoil

Rip
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?
The woman's hands

A love letter

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's photo in a locket
4 What is the perspective of the poem?
First-person

Third-person

It varies

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

Shirley

Jane Eyre

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

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"Paints their image on the mind."
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?
Octaves

Quatrains

Sextets

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

ABAB

ABAC

ABCB
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 former beauty and happiness

Her poetic ability

Her good penmanship

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

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"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?
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

The woman carries a locket around

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly
14 What is the poem's genre?
Elizabethan poetry

Haiku

War epic

Victorian poetry
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Lydia and Mary

Anne and Charlotte

Sylvia and Lavinia

Jane and Elizabeth
16 When was the poem originally written?
1840

1905

1848

1837
17 Where was Brontë born?
Thornton

Cornwall

Devonshire

London
18 How long is the poem?
Six stanzas

Three stanzas

Two 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 sense of self

Her family

Her lover

Her home
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's broken marriage

The woman's fractured family

The woman's financial troubles

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 serves no practical purpose

It makes them musical
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?
The first stanza

Never

The second stanza

The third stanza
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Tragic

Rueful

Wry

Dour

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