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 quiet of night

The aftermath of an epidemic

The death of a single loved one

The momentary blocking-out of sensations
2 Which best describes the speaker's identity?
A man leaving his lover because she has lost her grip on reality

An old woman recounting her first heartbreak to a younger one

A novelist trying to come up with a dramatic love story

A woman or girl suffering from heartbreak and possible madness
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 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

A mad but wise woman from Greek mythology
5 Which of the following genres does the poem NOT contain allusions to?
Native American mythology

The Bible

Fairytales

Nineteenth-century cookbooks
6 What is the poem's point of view?
First-person and second-person singular

Second-person plural and third-person singular

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 imply that the speaker cannot integrate this thought with her other experiences

They tell us that the speaker is trying to be casual and nonchalant

They show us that the speaker is whispering

They suggest that the line is spoken by a different, second speaker
8 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone?
Carefree

Uncertain

Panicked

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

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

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

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

Exit seraphim and Satan's men
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

Hoped

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

A tornado

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"?
Understatement

Metonymy

Simile

Symbolism
17 What does the thunderbird symbolize in the poem?
Consistency

Insanity

Freedom

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

Control

Education

Heartbreak
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 may not even be "mad," but may simply be suffering from heartbreak

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
20 What is the name given to the poem's two repeating lines?
Themes

Refrains

Repetitions

Choruses
21 Why does the speaker shut her eyes?
To pretend she is sleeping and cannot see her lover

To fantasize about killing her lover

To endure the physical pain of electroshock therapy

To gain control over and distance from an overwhelming world
22 What does the word "bewitched" most closely imply about the speaker's relationship to her lover?
That the lover lives in a fantasy world

That the lover seduced her through magical means

That the lover is a good storyteller

That the lover has a great deal of control and power over her
23 What does the word "moon-struck" mean?
Lovesick

Awed

Sleep-deprived

Close to death
24 What is this poem's form?
Ghazal

Villanelle

Sonnet

Haiku
25 Which of the following lines contains personification?
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

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

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