Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1851

1841

1856
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?
Octaves

Sextets

Quatrains

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

At the top of green hills

Her lover's grave

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

Twelve

Fifteen

Two
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 she has never found love again

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather

That the winter is particularly brutal
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA

ABAB

ABCB

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

Villanelle

Pastoral

Acrostic
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Dry

Sunny

Understated

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

Walt Whitman

Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

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

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

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Overcoming a lengthy illness
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Robert Lowell

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry David Thoreau

Elizabeth Bishop
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

Six

Nine

Eight
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given"

"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee"
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 demands the world has made on her life

How time has passed quickly in for her

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Middlemarch

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Gray
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?
Time

Marriage

Closure

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

A golden ring

A lightning bolt

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

Dreary

Enthusiastic

Dour
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?
Uplifting

Depressing

Ecstatic

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

Loss

Anxiety

Love

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