Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1841

1856

1851
2 When does the poem take place?
During spring

During winter

During autumn

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

Octaves

Quatrains

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

On mountains

By a sea shore

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

Twelve

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 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?
ABCB

Free verse

ABBA

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral

Acrostic

Elegy

Villanelle
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

Herman Melville

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?
Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Henry David Thoreau

Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Lowell

Nathaniel Hawthorne
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A young mother

A recently married bride

A priestess
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five

Six

Nine

Eight
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"?
How time has passed quickly in for her

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

The demands the world has made on her life

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

Middlemarch

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Cristine and Clarissa

Jane and Margaret

Elizabeth and Mary

Anne and Charlotte
20 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Closure

Death

Time

Marriage
21 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
A grave

A rose

A lightning bolt

A golden ring
22 What is the meaning of the word "rapturous" in the poem?
Dreary

Anxious

Dour

Enthusiastic
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?
Love

Anxiety

Marriage

Loss

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