Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1846

1856

1851

1841
2 When does the poem take place?

During autumn

During spring

During winter

During summer
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

Her lover's grave

By a sea shore

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

Five

Fifteen

Twelve

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 has never found love again

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather

That she has never felt as happy as she was when her lover was alive
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAB

Free verse

ABCB

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Villanelle

Pastoral

Elegy

Acrostic
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Mournful

Understated

Dry

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

Walt Whitman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville

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

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

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

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

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Deciding whether or not she will remarry
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 recently married bride

A young mother

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

Six

Nine

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 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?

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Gray

Middlemarch
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Margaret

Elizabeth and Mary

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

Death

Time

Marriage

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

A grave

A lightning bolt

A rose

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 coldest winter of her lifetime

The number of years her beloved has been dead

Her age

The snowfall of that year
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?

Marriage

Anxiety

Love

Loss

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