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?

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

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?

Allegory

Assonance

Internal rhyme

Dramatic irony
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?

The Bible

Native American mythology

Nineteenth-century cookbooks

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

Third-person singular

First-person plural

Second-person plural and 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?

Panicked

Regretful

Carefree

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

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

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

The speaker's arguments with her doctors and psychiatrists

The speaker's attempt to persuade her lover to return
10 What meter is the poem written in?

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentamater

Spondaic dimeter

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

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Alliteration

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

Exit seraphim and Satan's men

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

I fancied you'd return the way you said
13 Which line can most accurately be described as the poem's climax?

I lift my lids and all is born again

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade

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

Loved

Hoped

Pretended

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

The destruction of order

A tornado

Secularization following World War I

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

Understatement

Symbolism

Metonymy

Simile
17 What does the thunderbird symbolize in the poem?

Freedom

Consistency

Protection

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

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 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?

Refrains

Choruses

Themes

Repetitions
21 Why does the speaker shut her eyes?

To pretend she is sleeping and cannot see her lover

To endure the physical pain of electroshock therapy

To gain control over and distance from an overwhelming world

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?

Awed

Lovesick

Close to death

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

Villanelle

Ghazal

Sonnet

Haiku
25 Which of the following lines contains personification?

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

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

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