Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1851

1841

1846

1856
2 When does the poem take place?

During autumn

During winter

During summer

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

Quatrains

Sextets

Couplets

Octaves
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?

Her lover's grave

On mountains

By a sea shore

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

Two

Five

Twelve

Fifteen
6 What does the speaker mean in the line "No later light has lightened up my heaven"?

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather

That the winter is particularly brutal

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

That she has never found love again
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA

Free verse

ABAB

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Pastoral

Elegy

Acrostic

Villanelle
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Dry

Sunny

Mournful

Understated
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?

Herman Melville

Walt Whitman

William Carlos Williams

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Lowell

Henry David Thoreau
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?

A recently married bride

A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A young mother

A priestess
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?

Five

Eight

Six

Nine
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 demands the world has made on her life

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

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

Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Gray

Jane Eyre
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Jane and Margaret

Elizabeth and Mary

Cristine and Clarissa

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

Closure

Marriage

Death

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

A grave

A golden ring

A rose

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

Enthusiastic

Anxious

Dreary

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

The coldest winter of her lifetime

The snowfall of that year

Her age

The number of years her beloved has been dead
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?

Nervous

Ecstatic

Uplifting

Depressing
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?

Love

Marriage

Anxiety

Loss

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