Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1841

1846

1851

1856
2 When does the poem take place?
During autumn

During winter

During spring

During summer
3 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Couplets

Sextets

Quatrains

Octaves
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?
At the top of green hills

By a sea shore

On mountains

Her lover's grave
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?
Five

Fifteen

Two

Twelve
6 What does the speaker mean in the line "No later light has lightened up my heaven"?
That the winter is particularly brutal

That she has never found love again

That she has never felt as happy as she was when her lover was alive

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
Free verse

ABCB

ABAB

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Elegy

Villanelle

Acrostic

Pastoral
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Sunny

Understated

Dry

Mournful
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville

William Carlos Williams

Walt Whitman
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

"Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy."

"While the world's tide is bearing me along;"

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Overcoming a lengthy illness

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Making an arduous trek across the mountain
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Robert Lowell

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry David Thoreau

Elizabeth Bishop
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A recently married bride

A priestess

A young mother
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Six

Eight

Five

Nine
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee"

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"

"All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given"
17 What does the speaker refer to when she says "While the world's tide is bearing me along"?
The demands the world has made on her life

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

How time has passed quickly in for her

The way the world has not given her a moment's rest
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Middlemarch

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Gray
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Elizabeth and Mary

Anne and Charlotte

Cristine and Clarissa

Jane and Margaret
20 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Marriage

Time

Closure

Death
21 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
A golden ring

A rose

A grave

A lightning bolt
22 What is the meaning of the word "rapturous" in the poem?
Dreary

Enthusiastic

Dour

Anxious
23 What is the speaker referencing in the line "Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers"?
The number of years her beloved has been dead

The coldest winter of her lifetime

Her age

The snowfall of that year
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Uplifting

Depressing

Nervous

Ecstatic
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?
Anxiety

Marriage

Loss

Love

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