Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1841

1846

1856

1851
2 When does the poem take place?
During autumn

During summer

During winter

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

Sextets

Octaves

Quatrains
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?
Fifteen

Twelve

Five

Two
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 lives in a region with cloudy weather

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

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

ABBA

ABAB

Free verse
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Acrostic

Elegy

Villanelle

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

Sunny

Mournful

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

Walt Whitman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"While the world's tide is bearing me along;"

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

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Deciding whether or not she will remarry
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Elizabeth Bishop

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry David Thoreau

Robert Lowell
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?
Five

Eight

Six

Nine
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"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"
17 What does the speaker refer to when she says "While the world's tide is bearing me along"?
How time has passed quickly in for her

The demands the world has made on her life

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

The way the world has not given her a moment's rest
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Agnes Gray

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Middlemarch
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Cristine and Clarissa

Elizabeth and Mary

Jane and Margaret

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

Closure

Marriage

Death
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?
Dreary

Anxious

Dour

Enthusiastic
23 What is the speaker referencing in the line "Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers"?
The coldest winter of her lifetime

Her age

The snowfall of that year

The number of years her beloved has been dead
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Uplifting

Depressing

Ecstatic

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

Love

Loss

Anxiety

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