Mad Girl’s Love Song Quizzes

Mad Girl's Love Song Quiz

1 "All the world drops dead" is most likely a metaphor for what?
The aftermath of an epidemic

The momentary blocking-out of sensations

The death of a single loved one

The quiet of night
2 Which best describes the speaker's identity?
A man leaving his lover because she has lost her grip on reality

A woman or girl suffering from heartbreak and possible madness

A novelist trying to come up with a dramatic love story

An old woman recounting her first heartbreak to a younger one
3 The phrases "lift my lids" and "sung me moon-struck" both contain which of the following?
Assonance

Internal rhyme

Dramatic irony

Allegory
4 What does the word "seraphim" mean?
A type of pill once given to patients suffering from mental illness

A flourish added to handwritten calligraphy

A type of angel in several religious traditions

A mad but wise woman from Greek mythology
5 Which of the following genres does the poem NOT contain allusions to?
Native American mythology

The Bible

Nineteenth-century cookbooks

Fairytales
6 What is the poem's point of view?
First-person and second-person singular

Third-person singular

First-person plural

Second-person plural and third-person singular
7 What role do the parentheses around the line "I think I made you up inside my head" play?
They suggest that the line is spoken by a different, second speaker

They imply that the speaker cannot integrate this thought with her other experiences

They show us that the speaker is whispering

They tell us that the speaker is trying to be casual and nonchalant
8 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone?
Panicked

Regretful

Uncertain

Carefree
9 Which best describes the poem's major conflict?
The speaker's attempt to gain control over her own mind

The speaker's attempt to persuade her lover to return

The speaker's desire to get revenge on an ex-lover

The speaker's arguments with her doctors and psychiatrists
10 What meter is the poem written in?
Anapestic pentamater

Dactylic trimeter

Spondaic dimeter

Iambic pentameter
11 The "D" sounds in the phrase "all the world drops dead" are an example of which of the following?
Alliteration

Assonance

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia
12 Which of the following phrases contains the clearest example of alliteration?
I should have loved a thunderbird instead

I fancied you'd return the way you said

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

Exit seraphim and Satan's men
13 Which line can most accurately be described as the poem's climax?
God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

But I grow old and I forget your name

I lift my lids and all is born again
14 What does the word "fancied" mean in the poem?
Pretended

Hoped

Loved

Dressed up
15 "God topples from the sky" can best be understood as a metaphor for which of the following?
The destruction of order

Secularization following World War I

The aging of a parent

A tornado
16 Which best describes the role of the word "bed" in the phrase "bewitched me into bed"?
Symbolism

Metonymy

Simile

Understatement
17 What does the thunderbird symbolize in the poem?
Freedom

Consistency

Insanity

Protection
18 Which of the following is NOT a major theme of the poem?
Heartbreak

Education

Control

Mental illness
19 Which of the following is NOT a source of irony on the poem's title?
The speaker may not even be "mad," but may simply be suffering from heartbreak

The term "girl" seems to promise juvenile concerns, but the speaker's conflicts are deep and distressing

The speaker did not love, or even like, the person she is addressing

The title makes us expect a happy love story, but the poem focuses on heartbreak
20 What is the name given to the poem's two repeating lines?
Repetitions

Choruses

Themes

Refrains
21 Why does the speaker shut her eyes?
To fantasize about killing her lover

To pretend she is sleeping and cannot see her lover

To gain control over and distance from an overwhelming world

To endure the physical pain of electroshock therapy
22 What does the word "bewitched" most closely imply about the speaker's relationship to her lover?
That the lover lives in a fantasy world

That the lover is a good storyteller

That the lover seduced her through magical means

That the lover has a great deal of control and power over her
23 What does the word "moon-struck" mean?
Awed

Lovesick

Close to death

Sleep-deprived
24 What is this poem's form?
Haiku

Villanelle

Sonnet

Ghazal
25 Which of the following lines contains personification?
I think I made you up inside my head

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

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