Memory Green Quizzes

Memory Green Quiz

1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish?
Romantic

Modernist

Victorian

Transcendental
2 How does Memory Green begin?
With an affirmative statement

With a wish

With a demand

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

Nature is on our side

The reader is implicated

The writer keeps his distance
4 Besides wind, what is the most frequently used image in Memory Green?
Dying leaves

Empty streets

Dark skies

Teary eyes
5 What does the word "sweetness" refer to in Memory Green?
Cheerfulness

Good health

Excitement

Nostalgia
6 The changing weather has what effect in Memory Green?
Evokes time's effects on the mind

Evokes frustration about unpredictable weather

Evokes fear about environmental change

Evokes a religious fervor
7 Why does MacLeish reference the senses in Memory Green?
The senses bring ecstatic joy

The senses represent freedom

The senses trigger memories and emotion

The senses overpower nature
8 What do you think the speaker wants the reader to feel?
Wistful and moved

Tickled and amused

Invigorated and energized

Content and peaceful
9 What is the most important point of naming both Friedrichstrasse and the Parisian quay?
The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place

They are places of artistic expression

They are recognizable to modernist readers

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 hopes to evoke a mystical quality

He knows the person he is speaking about

Because the experience he describes is part of the human condition
11 How is Memory Green similar to other MacLeish poems?
It has an underlying motive of environmental conservation

It helps the reader forget his troubles for a while

It touches on limitations of the human experience

It makes the reader want to laugh with joy
12 When during the poem does the reader first become aware that MacLeish is referring to nostalgia?
"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,"

"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:"
13 Why does "Memory Green" end on a question?
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

Because MacLeish wants to show how silly nostalgia is
14 What concept is mentioned in both Memory Green and Ars Poetica?
History

Memory

Grief

Language
15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born?
England

California

Illinois

Scotland
16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university?
Yale

Harvard

Edinburgh

Cambridge
17 What big event happened a few years after MacLeish married?
He wrote a famous screenplay

He won his first Pulitzer Prize

He served in WWI

He served as Librarian of Congress
18 Where did MacLeish attend law school?
Columbia

Oxford

Yale

Harvard
19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession?
The day he published his first book

The day he made partner

The day he met Ada Hitchcock

The day he joined the army
20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador?
He followed the route of Cortez' army

He became an expatriate

He studied fascism in Spain

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

a war and a play

a poem and a novel

a library and a screenplay
22 Based on his life and work, what was MacLeish obsessed with conceptually?
celibacy

time

money

humor
23 What was the name of MacLeish's wife?
Elle Cummings

Ava Winthrop

Ada Hitchcock

Amy Cortez
24 Which war did MacLeish serve in?
Vietnam

WWI

WWII

Mexican-American War
25 What do the tears in "Memory Green" indicate?
One can have a strong feeling and not know why

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

The subject of the poem has dementia

All tears are tears of grief

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