Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1846

1841

1851

1856
2 When does the poem take place?

During winter

During spring

During autumn

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

Sextets

Couplets

Octaves

Quatrains
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?

Her lover's grave

On mountains

At the top of green hills

By a sea shore
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?

Two

Fifteen

Twelve

Five
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

ABAB

Free verse

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Villanelle

Elegy

Acrostic

Pastoral
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Sunny

Mournful

Understated

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

Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman

William Carlos Williams
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."

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Making an arduous trek across the mountain
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert Lowell

Elizabeth Bishop

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

A priestess

A recently married bride

A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A young mother
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

How time has passed quickly in for her

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?

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch

Agnes Gray
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?

Closure

Marriage

Time

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

A rose

A golden ring

A grave

A lightning bolt
22 What is the meaning of the word "rapturous" in the poem?

Enthusiastic

Dreary

Anxious

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 snowfall of that year

Her age

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

Ecstatic

Uplifting

Depressing

Nervous
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?

Anxiety

Love

Loss

Marriage

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