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 momentary blocking-out of sensations

The death of a single loved one

The quiet of night

The aftermath of an epidemic
2 Which best describes the speaker's identity?

An old woman recounting her first heartbreak to a younger one

A man leaving his lover because she has lost her grip on reality

A novelist trying to come up with a dramatic love story

A woman or girl suffering from heartbreak and possible madness
3 The phrases "lift my lids" and "sung me moon-struck" both contain which of the following?

Assonance

Dramatic irony

Internal rhyme

Allegory
4 What does the word "seraphim" mean?

A type of angel in several religious traditions

A flourish added to handwritten calligraphy

A mad but wise woman from Greek mythology

A type of pill once given to patients suffering from mental illness
5 Which of the following genres does the poem NOT contain allusions to?

Nineteenth-century cookbooks

The Bible

Native American mythology

Fairytales
6 What is the poem's point of view?

First-person plural

Second-person plural and third-person singular

Third-person singular

First-person and second-person singular
7 What role do the parentheses around the line "I think I made you up inside my head" play?

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

They suggest that the line is spoken by a different, second speaker

They tell us that the speaker is trying to be casual and nonchalant

They show us that the speaker is whispering
8 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Uncertain

Panicked

Regretful

Carefree
9 Which best describes the poem's major conflict?

The speaker's arguments with her doctors and psychiatrists

The speaker's attempt to persuade her lover to return

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

The speaker's attempt to gain control over her own mind
10 What meter is the poem written in?

Dactylic trimeter

Spondaic dimeter

Anapestic pentamater

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

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Assonance

Alliteration
12 Which of the following phrases contains the clearest example of alliteration?

I fancied you'd return the way you said

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

Exit seraphim and Satan's men

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red
13 Which line can most accurately be described as the poem's climax?

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade

I lift my lids and all is born again

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

But I grow old and I forget your name
14 What does the word "fancied" mean in the poem?

Hoped

Loved

Dressed up

Pretended
15 "God topples from the sky" can best be understood as a metaphor for which of the following?

The destruction of order

A tornado

The aging of a parent

Secularization following World War I
16 Which best describes the role of the word "bed" in the phrase "bewitched me into bed"?

Metonymy

Symbolism

Understatement

Simile
17 What does the thunderbird symbolize in the poem?

Insanity

Freedom

Protection

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

Education

Heartbreak

Mental illness

Control
19 Which of the following is NOT a source of irony on the poem's title?

The title makes us expect a happy love story, but the poem focuses on heartbreak

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
20 What is the name given to the poem's two repeating lines?

Repetitions

Choruses

Refrains

Themes
21 Why does the speaker shut her eyes?

To endure the physical pain of electroshock therapy

To gain control over and distance from an overwhelming world

To pretend she is sleeping and cannot see her lover

To fantasize about killing her lover
22 What does the word "bewitched" most closely imply about the speaker's relationship to her lover?

That the lover is a good storyteller

That the lover has a great deal of control and power over her

That the lover seduced her through magical means

That the lover lives in a fantasy world
23 What does the word "moon-struck" mean?

Awed

Sleep-deprived

Lovesick

Close to death
24 What is this poem's form?

Sonnet

Ghazal

Villanelle

Haiku
25 Which of the following lines contains personification?

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

I think I made you up inside my head

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane

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