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 aftermath of an epidemic

The death of a single loved one

The quiet of night

The momentary blocking-out of sensations
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 woman or girl suffering from heartbreak and possible madness

A novelist trying to come up with a dramatic love story
3 The phrases "lift my lids" and "sung me moon-struck" both contain which of the following?

Allegory

Assonance

Dramatic irony

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

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

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

Fairytales

The Bible

Nineteenth-century cookbooks

Native American mythology
6 What is the poem's point of view?

First-person and second-person singular

Third-person singular

Second-person plural and third-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 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 show us that the speaker is whispering
8 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Panicked

Uncertain

Carefree

Regretful
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 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

Spondaic dimeter

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

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

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

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

I fancied you'd return the way you said

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

Exit seraphim and Satan's men
13 Which line can most accurately be described as the poem's climax?

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

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

Pretended

Loved

Hoped

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

A tornado

The aging of a parent

Secularization following World War I

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

Understatement

Symbolism

Simile

Metonymy
17 What does the thunderbird symbolize in the poem?

Protection

Insanity

Freedom

Consistency
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 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 term "girl" seems to promise juvenile concerns, but the speaker's conflicts are deep and distressing

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?

Repetitions

Choruses

Themes

Refrains
21 Why does the speaker shut her eyes?

To fantasize about killing her lover

To gain control over and distance from an overwhelming world

To endure the physical pain of electroshock therapy

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 lives in a fantasy world

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

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

Close to death

Sleep-deprived

Awed

Lovesick
24 What is this poem's form?

Haiku

Villanelle

Sonnet

Ghazal
25 Which of the following lines contains personification?

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

I think I made you up inside my head

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

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