1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish? Victorian Romantic Transcendental Modernist 2 How does Memory Green begin? With an affirmative statement With a question With a wish With a demand 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? Empty streets Dark skies Dying leaves Teary eyes 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 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 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? Invigorated and energized Content and peaceful Tickled and amused Wistful and moved 9 What is the most important point of naming both Friedrichstrasse and the Parisian quay? They are recognizable to modernist readers The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place They are places known to be windy They are places of artistic expression 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 makes the reader want to laugh with joy It helps the reader forget his troubles for a while It has an underlying motive of environmental conservation 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? "You will not understand why suddenly sweetness / Fills in your heart nor the tears come to your eyes:" "Or you in Paris on the windy quay / Shuffle the shallow fallen leaves before you" "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 the speaker is asking the reader for answers Because MacLeish has mixed feelings about seasons 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? Memory History Language Grief 15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born? California Scotland England Illinois 16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university? Yale Edinburgh Cambridge Harvard 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? Columbia Harvard Oxford Yale 19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession? The day he met Ada Hitchcock The day he made partner The day he joined the army The day he published his first book 20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador? He followed the route of Hemingway He followed the route of Cortez' army He became an expatriate He studied fascism in Spain 21 What are two main ties connecting MacLeish's life to the Roosevelt family? a war and a play a poem and a novel a speech and an apology a library and a screenplay 22 Based on his life and work, what was MacLeish obsessed with conceptually? celibacy humor time money 23 What was the name of MacLeish's wife? Amy Cortez Ada Hitchcock Ava Winthrop Elle Cummings 24 Which war did MacLeish serve in? Mexican-American War WWII WWI Vietnam 25 What do the tears in "Memory Green" indicate? The constant wind is causing the subject's eyes to water All tears are tears of grief One can have a strong feeling and not know why The subject of the poem has dementia