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 woman or girl suffering from heartbreak and possible madness

A novelist trying to come up with a dramatic love story

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

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

Dramatic irony

Internal rhyme

Assonance
4 What does the word "seraphim" mean?

A mad but wise woman from Greek mythology

A flourish added to handwritten calligraphy

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

A type of angel in several religious traditions
5 Which of the following genres does the poem NOT contain allusions to?

Fairytales

The Bible

Native American mythology

Nineteenth-century cookbooks
6 What is the poem's point of view?

Second-person plural and third-person singular

First-person and second-person singular

First-person plural

Third-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 show us that the speaker is whispering

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
8 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Carefree

Panicked

Uncertain

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

The speaker's attempt to persuade her lover to return

The speaker's arguments with her doctors and psychiatrists

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?

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?

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Assonance

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

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

Exit seraphim and Satan's men

I fancied you'd return the way you said

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

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade

But I grow old and I forget your name

I lift my lids and all is born again

I should have loved a thunderbird instead
14 What does the word "fancied" mean in the poem?

Loved

Pretended

Dressed up

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

The aging of a parent

The destruction of order

Secularization following World War I

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

Understatement

Simile

Symbolism

Metonymy
17 What does the thunderbird symbolize in the poem?

Consistency

Freedom

Insanity

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

Education

Mental illness

Heartbreak

Control
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 title makes us expect a happy love story, but the poem focuses on 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?

Themes

Refrains

Choruses

Repetitions
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 fantasize about killing her lover

To pretend she is sleeping and cannot see 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

Lovesick

Sleep-deprived

Awed
24 What is this poem's form?

Villanelle

Sonnet

Ghazal

Haiku
25 Which of the following lines contains personification?

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

I think I made you up inside my head

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane

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