Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1851

1856

1841
2 When does the poem take place?
During winter

During summer

During autumn

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

Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?
By a sea shore

Her lover's grave

At the top of green hills

On mountains
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?
Five

Twelve

Two

Fifteen
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 the winter is particularly brutal

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather

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

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Elegy

Acrostic

Villanelle

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

Understated

Dry

Mournful
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
William Carlos Williams

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover
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 woman who is grieving her dead lover

A young mother

A recently married bride

A priestess
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Nine

Six

Eight

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

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

The demands the world has made on her life

How time has passed quickly in for her
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

Elizabeth and Mary

Anne and Charlotte

Cristine and Clarissa
20 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Time

Closure

Death

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

A rose

A lightning bolt

A golden ring
22 What is the meaning of the word "rapturous" in the poem?
Dreary

Dour

Enthusiastic

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?
Nervous

Depressing

Uplifting

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

Loss

Love

Anxiety

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