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 death of a single loved one

The aftermath of an epidemic

The quiet of night

The momentary blocking-out of sensations
2 Which best describes the speaker's identity?

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

A man leaving his lover because she has lost her grip on reality
3 The phrases "lift my lids" and "sung me moon-struck" both contain which of the following?

Dramatic irony

Allegory

Assonance

Internal rhyme
4 What does the word "seraphim" mean?

A mad but wise woman from Greek mythology

A type of pill once given to patients suffering from mental illness

A type of angel in several religious traditions

A flourish added to handwritten calligraphy
5 Which of the following genres does the poem NOT contain allusions to?

The Bible

Nineteenth-century cookbooks

Fairytales

Native American mythology
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 tell us that the speaker is trying to be casual and nonchalant

They show us that the speaker is whispering

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
8 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Panicked

Uncertain

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 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
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?

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Assonance

Hyperbole
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?

I lift my lids and all is born again

But I grow old and I forget your name

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade
14 What does the word "fancied" mean in the poem?

Pretended

Dressed up

Hoped

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

A tornado

Secularization following World War I

The destruction of order

The aging of a parent
16 Which best describes the role of the word "bed" in the phrase "bewitched me into bed"?

Metonymy

Understatement

Symbolism

Simile
17 What does the thunderbird symbolize in the poem?

Freedom

Insanity

Consistency

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

Mental illness

Heartbreak

Education

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

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

The speaker may not even be "mad," but may simply be suffering from heartbreak
20 What is the name given to the poem's two repeating lines?

Refrains

Repetitions

Themes

Choruses
21 Why does the speaker shut her eyes?

To gain control over and distance from an overwhelming world

To pretend she is sleeping and cannot see her lover

To endure the physical pain of electroshock therapy

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 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

That the lover is a good storyteller
23 What does the word "moon-struck" mean?

Close to death

Lovesick

Sleep-deprived

Awed
24 What is this poem's form?

Villanelle

Sonnet

Ghazal

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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