Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1851

1846

1841

1856
2 When does the poem take place?
During autumn

During summer

During winter

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

Couplets

Sextets

Octaves
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?
Her lover's grave

At the top of green hills

On mountains

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

Two

Fifteen

Five
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 lives in a region with cloudy weather

That the winter is particularly brutal

That she has never found love again
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAB

ABBA

Free verse

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Villanelle

Pastoral

Elegy

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

Sunny

Dry

Understated
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,"

"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

Overcoming a lengthy illness

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"?
Elizabeth Bishop

Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert Lowell
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?
Six

Nine

Five

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

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee"

"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"?
The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

The demands the world has made on her life

How time has passed quickly in for her

The way the world has not given her a moment's rest
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Agnes Gray
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Elizabeth and Mary

Jane and Margaret

Anne and Charlotte

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 grave

A golden ring

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

Dour

Anxious

Enthusiastic
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 coldest winter of her lifetime

The snowfall of that year
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Depressing

Uplifting

Ecstatic

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

Loss

Love

Anxiety

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