Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1851

1846

1841

1856
2 When does the poem take place?
During spring

During autumn

During summer

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

Couplets

Sextets

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

On mountains

Her lover's grave

At the top of green hills
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?
Twelve

Five

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 the winter is particularly brutal

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA

ABAB

ABCB

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

Villanelle

Elegy

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

Dry

Understated

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

Walt Whitman

William Carlos Williams

Herman Melville
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

"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?
Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Overcoming a lengthy illness
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert Lowell

Henry David Thoreau

Elizabeth Bishop
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A priestess

A recently married bride

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

Six

Nine

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 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

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

Agnes Gray

Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Margaret

Cristine and Clarissa

Elizabeth and Mary
20 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Marriage

Time

Closure

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

A golden ring

A lightning bolt

A grave
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"?
Her age

The number of years her beloved has been dead

The snowfall of that year

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

Uplifting

Nervous

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

Loss

Love

Anxiety

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