The Blessed Damozel Quizzes

The Blessed Damozel Quiz

1 How many lilies does the damozel hold in her hands?
3

4

1

7
2 How many stars are in the damozel's hair?
7

3

6

2
3 When the damozel speaks, what does it sound like?
Like silence since it has to travel through the vast expanse of space

Like the Virgin Mary's laughter

A chainsaw because it is so rusty

All of the stars in heaven singing together
4 What is the damozel's hair compared to because of it's color?
Poppies

Corn

the Sea

Sunshine
5 What is so far away that the damozel can barely see it?
the sun

the Earth

the stars

the moon
6 What does the Earth look like to the damozel?
an anxious insect

a buzzing bee

a happy bird

a tiny blue dot
7 What do souls ascending to Heaven look like to the damozel?
forceful tides

pure emotion

ghostly apparitions

thin flames
8 How can the damozel see the passage of time from Heaven?
She can watch the tides of night and day

She can count how many songs have been sung in the day

She can tell the position of the planets since she is above them

She can't; she has no conception of how much time has passed at all
9 Who does the damozel want to take her lover to visit while in Heaven?
Gabriel

Raphael

Jesus and his disciples

Mary and her five attendants
10 What does the lover confuse for the damozel's voice in the poem?
birdsong

bells

stringed instruments

windchimes
11 What does the lover confuse for the damozel's footstepts in the poem?
the chiming of bells

the sound of a crowd

the thunder before a storm

the sounds of construction work
12 According to the analysis, what is one thing that the lilies in the damozel's hands can stand for?
the 7 daughters of Atlas and Pleione

the death of nature

purity

love
13 What kind of structure is the damozel standing on as she looks down, waiting for her lover?
a moat

a wooden wall

a rampart

a castle
14 How long does the damozel feel she has been in heaven?
one day

ten years

forever

twenty years
15 How long have the damozel's loved ones felt like she has been gone?
an eternity

10 years

a single day

10 months
16 In what form does the Holy Spirit appear in this poem?
The angels and their winged instruments

A dove

The stars

The three lilies in the damozel's hand
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCBAB

ABCBA

ABCBDB

ABAB
18 How many stanzas total are there in the poem?
24

21

26

22
19 How many lines does each stanza have?
6

4

5

3
20 Which of the following is NOT the name of one of Mary's attendants?
Cecily

Rosalys

Electra

Gertrude
21 How do we know the damozel's lover is speaking?
His stanzas are separated by parentheses

The speaker tells us

His stanzas are separated by brackets

His stanzas are in a different register
22 How old was Rossetti when he wrote "The Blessed Damozel"?
21

20

18

19
23 What was Rossetti's literary society called?
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Alphonso Brotherhood

The Machiavelis

The Davincis (and, later, the Post-Davinci Brotherhood)
24 Which of the following bible verses mentions seven stars?
John 3.16

Revelation 1.16

Matthew 4.7

Romans 3.7
25 What is the overall mood of "The Blessed Damozel"?
joy

depression

hatefulness

logning

Give a brief sketch of heaven as described in the blessed damozel

In the poem, the damozel is standing at the edge of Heaven as it dangles over the cosmos, looking down on Earth. She is described as leaning over the bar in the first stanza: "The blessed damozel lean'd out / From the gold bar of Heaven" (1-2)....

Asked by Marimuthu V #1206898

Answered by Aslan on 1/18/2022 7:07 PM