1 Which book did this poem first appear in? A Book of Irish Verse The Tower Cathleen Ní Houlihan The Rose 2 What does "glad" most closely mean in this work's context? Comfortable Soft Pleasing Happy 3 What is the poem's meter? Dactylic Pentameter Iambic pentameter Free Verse Iambic Tetrameter 4 Which real-life figure was the poem likely addressed to? Georgiana Hyde-Lees Maud Gonne Teresa Deevy James Joyce 5 Which best describes the relationship between the speaker and the addressee? Baseless hatred Familial obligation Lost love Political solidarity 6 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia? Murmur Grace Shadows Crowd 7 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone? Melancholy Zealous Regretful Bitter 8 How does the speaker characterize his own love as distinct? He implies that he loves the addressee for non-superficial reasons He insists that his love is a mystical, almost magic force He explains that he has loved the addressee for longer than anyone else He argues that he actually wants to help the addressee rather than just admire her 9 The poem's contrast between the home and the wilderness is an instance of which of the following? Hyperbole Juxtaposition Personification Parallelism 10 Which best describes the poem's setting? A Victorian Dublin schoolyard A magical realm A house in twentieth-century Ireland An abandoned castle in Europe 11 How many stanzas are in this poem? Three One Five Four 12 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABAB ABC ABBA AABB 13 Which line features alliterative G sounds? But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled How many loved your moments of glad grace When you are old and grey and full of sleep 14 Which emotion is personified in this poem? Fury Regret Sadness Love 15 Which of the following is true of Maud Gonne? She was an Irish revolutionary She was best known as a painter She was American She was opposed to Yeats's radical politics 16 Which of the following is true of this poem? It is a direct commentary on Irish independence Its primary theme is the nature of consciousness It is written from the point of view of an inanimate object It is written in the second person 17 Which is a conflict in the poem? The tension between youthful passion and the jadedness of age The dislike between the speaker and the woman he is engaged to The fight between Irish revolutionaries and the British government The disagreement between a young woman and her parents 18 Who is the poem's speaker? An old man looking back at his youth A house remembering everything that has happened within its walls An unidentified man, most likely a version of Yeats himself A young woman looking forward to old age 19 Which of the following is true of this poem and the way it engages with time? It takes place over a series of flashbacks It is about time travel to Ireland's past It mostly takes place in a hypothetical, imagined future It describes a person who cannot distinguish the past from the future 20 Which of the following themes does this poem engage with most? Aging and time Nature and its destruction Motherhood Music and art 21 This poem is based on an earlier work by whom? Petrarch Seamus Heaney Pierre de Ronsard Christina Rosetti 22 How is the addressee characterized by the speaker? As a likable but cruel schemer As a kind person whose anger disguises her good intentions As superficially charming, but full of hidden depths As a person so repressed by the norms of her time that she has no real personality 23 What types of stanzas are in the poem? Couplets Quatrains Octaves Tercets 24 The phrase "when you are old and grey" contains which of the following? Metonymy End rhyme Allusion Simile 25 Which of the following is one meaning of the word "pilgrim"? Romantic and softhearted A gifted student A traveler to a religious site Sickly