Memory Green Quizzes

Memory Green Quiz

1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish?

Victorian

Romantic

Modernist

Transcendental
2 How does Memory Green begin?

With an affirmative statement

With a demand

With a wish

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

The reader is implicated

The writer keeps his distance

Nature is on our side

Time is personified
4 Besides wind, what is the most frequently used image in Memory Green?

Teary eyes

Dark skies

Dying leaves

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

Nostalgia

Excitement

Good health

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

Evokes time's effects on the mind

Evokes a religious fervor

Evokes fear about environmental change

Evokes frustration about unpredictable weather
7 Why does MacLeish reference the senses in Memory Green?

The senses overpower nature

The senses trigger memories and emotion

The senses represent freedom

The senses bring ecstatic joy
8 What do you think the speaker wants the reader to feel?

Wistful and moved

Invigorated and energized

Content and peaceful

Tickled and amused
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

They are places of artistic expression

The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place
10 Why does MacLeish use the future verb tense ("You will...")?

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

He wants every reader to believe him
11 How is Memory Green similar to other MacLeish poems?

It helps the reader forget his troubles for a while

It has an underlying motive of environmental conservation

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 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

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

History

Memory

Language

Grief
15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born?

England

California

Scotland

Illinois
16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university?

Harvard

Yale

Cambridge

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

He wrote a famous screenplay

He served in WWI

He won his first Pulitzer Prize

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

Yale

Columbia

Harvard

Oxford
19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession?

The day he joined the army

The day he met Ada Hitchcock

The day he made partner

The day he published his first book
20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador?

He followed the route of Hemingway

He became an expatriate

He studied fascism in Spain

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

a war and a play

a library and a screenplay

a poem and a novel

a speech and an apology
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?

Amy Cortez

Ava Winthrop

Ada Hitchcock

Elle Cummings
24 Which war did MacLeish serve in?

WWI

WWII

Vietnam

Mexican-American War
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

All tears are tears of grief

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

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