Memory Green Quizzes

Memory Green Quiz

1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish?

Victorian

Romantic

Transcendental

Modernist
2 How does Memory Green begin?

With a wish

With a demand

With a question

With an affirmative statement
3 What is the effect of the second person in Memory Green?

Nature is on our side

The writer keeps his distance

Time is personified

The reader is implicated
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?

Excitement

Good health

Nostalgia

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

Evokes time's effects on the mind

Evokes a religious fervor

Evokes frustration about unpredictable weather

Evokes fear about environmental change
7 Why does MacLeish reference the senses in Memory Green?

The senses represent freedom

The senses overpower nature

The senses trigger memories and emotion

The senses bring ecstatic joy
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?

They are recognizable to modernist readers

They are places known to be windy

The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place

They are places of artistic expression
10 Why does MacLeish use the future verb tense ("You will...")?

Because the experience he describes is part of the human condition

He hopes to evoke a mystical quality

He knows the person he is speaking about

He wants every reader to believe him
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 makes the reader want to laugh with joy

It touches on limitations of the human experience
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"

"And the southwest wind that smells of rain and summer / Strips the huge branches of their dying leaves,"

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

"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 MacLeish has mixed feelings about seasons

Because the speaker is asking the reader for answers

Because MacLeish wants to show how silly nostalgia is

Because we will always try to remember what we cannot
14 What concept is mentioned in both Memory Green and Ars Poetica?

Language

Memory

History

Grief
15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born?

Illinois

Scotland

California

England
16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university?

Harvard

Edinburgh

Cambridge

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

He won his first Pulitzer Prize

He served as Librarian of Congress

He wrote a famous screenplay

He served in WWI
18 Where did MacLeish attend law school?

Harvard

Yale

Columbia

Oxford
19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession?

The day he joined the army

The day he published his first book

The day he made partner

The day he met Ada Hitchcock
20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador?

He became an expatriate

He followed the route of Cortez' army

He followed the route of Hemingway

He studied fascism in Spain
21 What are two main ties connecting MacLeish's life to the Roosevelt family?

a library and a screenplay

a poem and a novel

a speech and an apology

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

celibacy

humor

money

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

Elle Cummings

Ada Hitchcock

Ava Winthrop

Amy Cortez
24 Which war did MacLeish serve in?

Mexican-American War

WWI

WWII

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

One can have a strong feeling and not know why

All tears are tears of grief

The subject of the poem has dementia

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

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