Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1841

1851

1846

1856
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?
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?
Twelve

Five

Fifteen

Two
6 What does the speaker mean in the line "No later light has lightened up my heaven"?
That she lives in a region with cloudy weather

That the winter is particularly brutal

That she has never found love again

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

Free verse

ABBA

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Elegy

Villanelle

Acrostic

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

Sunny

Dry

Mournful
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
Herman Melville

William Carlos Williams

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

"While the world's tide is bearing me along;"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Henry David Thoreau

Robert Lowell
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A recently married bride

A priestess

A woman who is grieving her dead lover

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

Six

Five

Eight
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given"

"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"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 demands the world has made on her life

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

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

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

Middlemarch

Agnes Gray

Jane Eyre
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?
Closure

Death

Marriage

Time
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

Anxious

Dreary

Dour
23 What is the speaker referencing in the line "Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers"?
The snowfall of that year

The coldest winter of her lifetime

The number of years her beloved has been dead

Her age
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Ecstatic

Depressing

Uplifting

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

Love

Anxiety

Loss

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