Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1851

1841

1856
2 When does the poem take place?
During autumn

During summer

During winter

During spring
3 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Sextets

Quatrains

Octaves

Couplets
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?
On mountains

Her lover's grave

By a sea shore

At the top of green hills
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?
Twelve

Five

Fifteen

Two
6 What does the speaker mean in the line "No later light has lightened up my heaven"?
That she has never found love again

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

That the winter is particularly brutal

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

ABAB

Free verse

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral

Villanelle

Acrostic

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

Mournful

Understated

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

Walt Whitman

Herman Melville

William Carlos Williams
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"While the world's tide is bearing me along;"

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

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Overcoming a lengthy illness

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Deciding whether or not she will remarry
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Lowell

Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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?
Nine

Eight

Five

Six
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given"

"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"
17 What does the speaker refer to when she says "While the world's tide is bearing me along"?
How time has passed quickly in for her

The way the world has not given her a moment's rest

The demands the world has made on her life

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Middlemarch

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Gray
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Jane and Margaret

Cristine and Clarissa

Elizabeth and Mary

Anne and Charlotte
20 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Marriage

Closure

Death

Time
21 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
A grave

A lightning bolt

A golden ring

A rose
22 What is the meaning of the word "rapturous" in the poem?
Enthusiastic

Dour

Dreary

Anxious
23 What is the speaker referencing in the line "Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers"?
Her age

The number of years her beloved has been dead

The snowfall of that year

The coldest winter of her lifetime
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Nervous

Uplifting

Depressing

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

Loss

Love

Anxiety

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