Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1841

1856

1851

1846
2 When does the poem take place?

During summer

During autumn

During winter

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves

Sextets
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?

At the top of green hills

By a sea shore

Her lover's grave

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?

ABBA

ABAB

Free verse

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Elegy

Acrostic

Villanelle

Pastoral
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Mournful

Understated

Sunny

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

Walt Whitman

Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Carlos Williams
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

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

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

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

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Making an arduous trek across the mountain
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 recently married bride

A young mother
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?

Eight

Five

Nine

Six
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"

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

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"
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?

Jane Eyre

Agnes Gray

Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights
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?

Closure

Marriage

Death

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

A lightning bolt

A rose

A golden ring

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

Dour

Dreary

Anxious

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

Her age

The coldest winter of her lifetime

The number of years her beloved has been dead

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?

Anxiety

Loss

Love

Marriage

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