The Widow’s Lament in Springtime Quizzes

The Widow's Lament in Springtime Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1921

1964

1912

1931
2 How long is the poem?
25 lines

15 lines

32 lines

29 lines
3 What is the main theme of the poem?
Coping

Rebirth

Natural beauty

Loss
4 Where is the poem set?
In the speaker's backyard

In a meadow

In a forest

In a field of flowers
5 Who is the speaker?
A recently widowed woman

A plum tree

A man who has lost his father

A dying man
6 Why does springtime make the speaker feel sadness?
Because it reminds her of her husband

Because she didn't have time to plant her garden

Because she gets terrible allergies

Because she prefers autumn
7 What is the tone of the poem?
Upbeat and cheery

Dull and monotone

Cynical and sarcastic

Mournful and elegiac
8 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?
An apple orchard

Plum tree

Grass

White flowers
9 What is the poem's form?
Free verse

Haiku

Rhyme royal

Sonnet
10 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"I lived with my husband."

"The plumtree is white today"

"flames as it has flamed"

"at the edge of the heavy woods"
11 Which movement was Williams associated with?
Romanticism

Impressionism

Surrealism

Imagism
12 What is the poem's genre?
Love sonnet

Nature poetry

War epic

Ekphrastic poetry
13 When does the climax occur?
When the speaker talks to to her son

When the speaker sees the blossoming tree in her yard

When the speaker imagines collapsing into white flowers

When the speaker remembers her husband
14 In "The morns are meeker than they were," what season did Emily Dickinson recontextualize?
Winter

Summer

Autumn

Spring
15 Which of the following lines contains foreshadowing?
"Sorrow is my own yard"

"and fall into those flowers"

"load the cherry branches"

"The plumtree is white today"
16 Which season is William Shakespeare reframing in Sonnet 98?
Winter

Spring

Summer

Autumn
17 Which technique does Williams use throughout the poem?
Enjambment

Anaphora

Extended metaphor

Unconventional capitalization
18 Which theatrical construct is the poem trying to imitate?
Stichomythia

Monologue

Soliloquy

Chorus
19 What do the white flowers at the end of the poem symbolize?
The speaker's grief

The speaker's acceptance of circumstance

The memories of the speaker's happy marriage

The grace of nature
20 Why does Williams choose to set a poem about death in springtime?
To show spring's hidden sadness

To parallel spring with winter

To show how spring is falsely framed in Victorian poetry

To show how loss changes the meaning of images and events
21 What was Williams's style typically characterized as?
Indulgent

Dense

Direct

Flowery
22 How long was the speaker married?
Twenty-five years

Five years

Thirty-five years

Fifteen years
23 Who told the speaker about the white flowers in the meadow?
The speaker's husband

The speaker's neighbor

The speaker's son

The speaker's mother
24 What does the speaker imagine doing at the end of the poem?
Going to a meadow with her husband

Chopping down her plum tree

Falling into a soft bed of white flowers

Mowing the lawn
25 What does the word "marsh" mean?
A swamp with alligators

A preserve for birdwatching

The shore of a beach

A muddy wetland

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