Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

By John Melendez · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed June 09, 2022

1 When was the poem published?

1851

1856

1841

1846
2 When does the poem take place?

During autumn

During spring

During summer

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

Quatrains

Octaves

Couplets

Sextets
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?

Her lover's grave

At the top of green hills

On mountains

By a sea shore
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?

Two

Fifteen

Five

Twelve
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 the winter is particularly brutal

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?

ABBA

ABCB

Free verse

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Villanelle

Pastoral

Elegy

Acrostic
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Dry

Mournful

Understated

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Carlos Williams

Walt Whitman

Herman Melville
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

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

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Lowell

Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?

A young mother

A recently married bride

A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A priestess
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?

Eight

Five

Nine

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

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

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

"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee"

"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"?

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

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

How time has passed quickly in for her

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

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Middlemarch

Agnes Gray
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Anne and Charlotte

Cristine and Clarissa

Elizabeth and Mary

Jane and Margaret
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 rose

A lightning bolt

A golden ring

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

Dour

Dreary

Enthusiastic

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

The snowfall of that year

The number of years her beloved has been dead

Her age

The coldest winter of her lifetime
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?

Anxiety

Love

Marriage

Loss

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