Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1856

1841

1846

1851
2 When does the poem take place?

During autumn

During spring

During winter

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Sextets

Octaves
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?

By a sea shore

On mountains

Her lover's grave

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

Twelve

Fifteen

Two

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

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

That she has never found love again

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather

That the winter is particularly brutal
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB

Free verse
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Elegy

Acrostic

Pastoral

Villanelle
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Understated

Mournful

Sunny

Dry
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?

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

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

"Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy."
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?

Robert Lowell

Henry David Thoreau

Elizabeth Bishop

Nathaniel Hawthorne
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?

A priestess

A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A young mother

A recently married bride
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?

Nine

Six

Eight

Five
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?

"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"

"All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given"

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee"
17 What does the speaker refer to when she says "While the world's tide is bearing me along"?

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

The demands the world has made on her life
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?

Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch

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?

Marriage

Time

Death

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

A golden ring

A grave

A rose

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

Enthusiastic

Dreary

Anxious

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 number of years her beloved has been dead

Her age

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

Ecstatic

Depressing

Uplifting

Nervous
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?

Marriage

Love

Loss

Anxiety

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