Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1841

1856

1851
2 When does the poem take place?
During summer

During winter

During autumn

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

Sextets

Quatrains

Octaves
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?
On mountains

By a sea shore

At the top of green hills

Her lover's grave
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?
Five

Two

Fifteen

Twelve
6 What does the speaker mean in the line "No later light has lightened up my heaven"?
That the winter is particularly brutal

That she has never found love again

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?
Free verse

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Acrostic

Elegy

Pastoral

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

Mournful

Dry

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Carlos Williams

Herman Melville
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

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

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

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"
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"?
Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Lowell

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

A young mother

A recently married bride

A woman who is grieving her dead lover
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Eight

Nine

Six

Five
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee"

"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"
17 What does the speaker refer to when she says "While the world's tide is bearing me along"?
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

How time has passed quickly in for her
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Jane Eyre

Middlemarch

Agnes Gray

Wuthering Heights
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Elizabeth and Mary

Jane and Margaret

Cristine and Clarissa

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

Marriage

Death

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

A lightning bolt

A rose

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

Anxious

Dour

Dreary
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 snowfall of that year

Her age

The coldest winter of her lifetime
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Nervous

Uplifting

Depressing

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

Marriage

Loss

Anxiety

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