The Blessed Damozel Quizzes

The Blessed Damozel Quiz

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

4

7

1
2 How many stars are in the damozel's hair?
2

7

3

6
3 When the damozel speaks, what does it sound like?
A chainsaw because it is so rusty

Like silence since it has to travel through the vast expanse of space

All of the stars in heaven singing together

Like the Virgin Mary's laughter
4 What is the damozel's hair compared to because of it's color?
Sunshine

the Sea

Poppies

Corn
5 What is so far away that the damozel can barely see it?
the Earth

the moon

the stars

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

a tiny blue dot

a happy bird

a buzzing bee
7 What do souls ascending to Heaven look like to the damozel?
forceful tides

pure emotion

thin flames

ghostly apparitions
8 How can the damozel see the passage of time from Heaven?
She can tell the position of the planets since she is above them

She can watch the tides of night and day

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

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?
Raphael

Jesus and his disciples

Gabriel

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

windchimes

birdsong

bells
11 What does the lover confuse for the damozel's footstepts in the poem?
the sounds of construction work

the sound of a crowd

the chiming of bells

the thunder before a storm
12 According to the analysis, what is one thing that the lilies in the damozel's hands can stand for?
the death of nature

love

the 7 daughters of Atlas and Pleione

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

a castle

a wooden wall

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

twenty years

forever

ten years
15 How long have the damozel's loved ones felt like she has been gone?
a single day

an eternity

10 years

10 months
16 In what form does the Holy Spirit appear in this poem?
The three lilies in the damozel's hand

The angels and their winged instruments

The stars

A dove
17 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCBAB

ABCBDB

ABCBA

ABAB
18 How many stanzas total are there in the poem?
22

24

26

21
19 How many lines does each stanza have?
3

4

6

5
20 Which of the following is NOT the name of one of Mary's attendants?
Gertrude

Rosalys

Cecily

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

His stanzas are separated by brackets

His stanzas are in a different register

The speaker tells us
22 How old was Rossetti when he wrote "The Blessed Damozel"?
19

21

18

20
23 What was Rossetti's literary society called?
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Machiavelis

The Davincis (and, later, the Post-Davinci Brotherhood)

The Pre-Alphonso Brotherhood
24 Which of the following bible verses mentions seven stars?
Matthew 4.7

Romans 3.7

John 3.16

Revelation 1.16
25 What is the overall mood of "The Blessed Damozel"?
depression

logning

joy

hatefulness

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