Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1841

1851

1846

1856
2 When does the poem take place?
During summer

During winter

During autumn

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?
Her lover's grave

At the top of green hills

By a sea shore

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

Twelve

Fifteen

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 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?
ABBA

ABCB

ABAB

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

Villanelle

Pastoral

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

Mournful

Sunny

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville

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

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

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

"Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy."
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Overcoming a lengthy illness

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover
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 young mother

A priestess

A recently married bride
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five

Nine

Eight

Six
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee"

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

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"
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 way time has lessened the weight of her grief

The way the world has not given her a moment's rest

The demands the world has made on her life
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Middlemarch

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Gray
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Jane and Margaret

Anne and Charlotte

Cristine and Clarissa

Elizabeth and Mary
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 lightning bolt

A rose

A grave

A golden ring
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 coldest winter of her lifetime

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?
Depressing

Ecstatic

Uplifting

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

Marriage

Anxiety

Love

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