Memory Green Quizzes

Memory Green Quiz

1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish?

Transcendental

Victorian

Modernist

Romantic
2 How does Memory Green begin?

With a wish

With an affirmative statement

With a demand

With a question
3 What is the effect of the second person in Memory Green?

The writer keeps his distance

The reader is implicated

Time is personified

Nature is on our side
4 Besides wind, what is the most frequently used image in Memory Green?

Dark skies

Dying leaves

Teary eyes

Empty streets
5 What does the word "sweetness" refer to in Memory Green?

Good health

Excitement

Cheerfulness

Nostalgia
6 The changing weather has what effect in Memory Green?

Evokes a religious fervor

Evokes fear about environmental change

Evokes frustration about unpredictable weather

Evokes time's effects on the mind
7 Why does MacLeish reference the senses in Memory Green?

The senses represent freedom

The senses bring ecstatic joy

The senses overpower nature

The senses trigger memories and emotion
8 What do you think the speaker wants the reader to feel?

Invigorated and energized

Wistful and moved

Content and peaceful

Tickled and amused
9 What is the most important point of naming both Friedrichstrasse and the Parisian quay?

They are places of artistic expression

They are recognizable to modernist readers

The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place

They are places known to be windy
10 Why does MacLeish use the future verb tense ("You will...")?

He wants every reader to believe him

He knows the person he is speaking about

Because the experience he describes is part of the human condition

He hopes to evoke a mystical quality
11 How is Memory Green similar to other MacLeish poems?

It makes the reader want to laugh with joy

It touches on limitations of the human experience

It has an underlying motive of environmental conservation

It helps the reader forget his troubles for a while
12 When during the poem does the reader first become aware that MacLeish is referring to nostalgia?

"Or you in Paris on the windy quay / Shuffle the shallow fallen leaves before you"

"You will not understand why suddenly sweetness / Fills in your heart nor the tears come to your eyes:"

"You will close your eyes: With whom, you will say, / Ah where?"

"And the southwest wind that smells of rain and summer / Strips the huge branches of their dying leaves,"
13 Why does "Memory Green" end on a question?

Because MacLeish wants to show how silly nostalgia is

Because the speaker is asking the reader for answers

Because we will always try to remember what we cannot

Because MacLeish has mixed feelings about seasons
14 What concept is mentioned in both Memory Green and Ars Poetica?

Grief

History

Memory

Language
15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born?

Illinois

California

Scotland

England
16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university?

Edinburgh

Yale

Cambridge

Harvard
17 What big event happened a few years after MacLeish married?

He served in WWI

He won his first Pulitzer Prize

He served as Librarian of Congress

He wrote a famous screenplay
18 Where did MacLeish attend law school?

Oxford

Harvard

Yale

Columbia
19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession?

The day he met Ada Hitchcock

The day he published his first book

The day he made partner

The day he joined the army
20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador?

He studied fascism in Spain

He followed the route of Cortez' army

He became an expatriate

He followed the route of Hemingway
21 What are two main ties connecting MacLeish's life to the Roosevelt family?

a poem and a novel

a library and a screenplay

a speech and an apology

a war and a play
22 Based on his life and work, what was MacLeish obsessed with conceptually?

money

time

humor

celibacy
23 What was the name of MacLeish's wife?

Ava Winthrop

Elle Cummings

Ada Hitchcock

Amy Cortez
24 Which war did MacLeish serve in?

WWI

Mexican-American War

WWII

Vietnam
25 What do the tears in "Memory Green" indicate?

The subject of the poem has dementia

One can have a strong feeling and not know why

The constant wind is causing the subject's eyes to water

All tears are tears of grief

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