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 aftermath of an epidemic

The quiet of night

The death of a single loved one
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?

Internal rhyme

Allegory

Dramatic irony

Assonance
4 What does the word "seraphim" mean?

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

A mad but wise woman from Greek mythology

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?

Native American mythology

Nineteenth-century cookbooks

Fairytales

The Bible
6 What is the poem's point of view?

Second-person plural and third-person singular

Third-person singular

First-person and second-person singular

First-person plural
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 suggest that the line is spoken by a different, second speaker

They show us that the speaker is whispering

They imply that the speaker cannot integrate this thought with her other experiences
8 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Carefree

Uncertain

Regretful

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

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

The speaker's attempt to gain control over her own mind

The speaker's attempt to persuade her lover to return

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

Spondaic dimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic trimeter

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

Assonance

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

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

I fancied you'd return the way you said

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

Exit seraphim and Satan's men

I should have loved a thunderbird instead
13 Which line can most accurately be described as the poem's climax?

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

I lift my lids and all is born again

But I grow old and I forget your name

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

Dressed up

Hoped

Pretended

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 aging of a parent

The destruction of order
16 Which best describes the role of the word "bed" in the phrase "bewitched me into bed"?

Metonymy

Simile

Symbolism

Understatement
17 What does the thunderbird symbolize in the poem?

Protection

Insanity

Consistency

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

Heartbreak

Control

Mental illness

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

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

The term "girl" seems to promise juvenile concerns, but the speaker's conflicts are deep and distressing
20 What is the name given to the poem's two repeating lines?

Repetitions

Themes

Choruses

Refrains
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 is a good storyteller

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

That the lover lives in a fantasy world

That the lover seduced her through magical means
23 What does the word "moon-struck" mean?

Close to death

Awed

Lovesick

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

Ghazal

Sonnet

Haiku

Villanelle
25 Which of the following lines contains personification?

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane

I think I made you up inside my head

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

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