A Song for St. Cecelia’s Day Quizzes

A Song for St. Cecelia's Day Quiz

1 Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of this poem?
Music should be independent from religion.

Music inspires us, helps us experience our emotions to the fullest, and connects us to the divine.

Music is destructive, dangerous, and should not be tampered with.

Music is wasteful, and causes us to waste our emotional energy.
2 Which of the following best describes the form and meter of this poem?
Mixed meter with mixed rhyme schemes

Iambic pentameter with AABB rhyme scheme

Iambic tetrameter with ABAB rhyme scheme

Iambic pentameter with ABAB rhyme scheme
3 Which of the following is not a major theme of this poem?
Music

Cosmology

Childhood

Religion
4 Which of the following does NOT contain an example of alliteration or consonance?
“The double double double beat"

“The spheres began to move”

“From harmony, from heavenly harmony”

“spoke so sweetly, and so well”
5 Which of the following INCORRECTLY describes how music is featured in this poem?
The word "music" shows up only once.

It is a key theme of the poem.

It is personified.

It appears in the last line of the poem.
6 Which of the following literary elements is NOT featured in this poem?
Understatement

Alliteration

Personification

Assonance
7 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem?
Jubal's shell

Nature

The universal frame

The drum
8 How many stanzas does this poem contain, including the Grand Chorus?
5

8

7

6
9 Which of the following is NOT an instrument mentioned in this poem?
The violin

The harpsichord

The organ

The flute
10 Who is St. Cecilia?
A Roman goddess

A Catholic martyr and patroness of music

A musician from the Bible

A colleague of John Dryden
11 Which of the following is NOT a dichotomy addressed by the poem?
The modern vs. The ancient

Heaven vs. Earth

The Christian vs. The pagan

The divine vs. The worldly
12 Which of the following is NOT a rhyme scheme that appears in this poem?
ABBA

AABB

ABAB

ABCABC
13 Which of the following does NOT accurately describe the tone of the speaker?
Mournful

Laudatory

Celebratory

Praising
14 Which of the following takes place in Stanza 7?
The speaker states that St. Cecilia's music is superior to that of Orpheus.

The speaker describes the sound of violins.

The speaker narrates the creation of the universe.

The speaker imagines the apocalypse.
15 Which of the following is a personification?
"Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat!"

"nature underneath a heap / Of jarring atoms lay, / And could not heave her head"

"From harmony, from heavenly harmony"

"Jubal struck the chorded shell"
16 Who is Jubal?
A musician from Roman mythology

A Catholic saint

An organ player

A musician from the Book of Genesis
17 Who is Orpheus?
A Catholic saint

A musician from the Book of Genesis

A musician from Roman mythology

An organ player
18 "What passion cannot Music raise and quell?" is which of the following?
A metonymy

A simile

A rhetorical question

An alliteration
19 Which of the following best describes the setting of the poem?
Spatial setting: unspecified / Temporal setting: St. Cecilia's Day celebration

Spatial setting: the city / Temporal setting: St. Cecilia's Day celebration

Spatial setting: the woods / Temporal setting: St. Cecilia's Day celebration

Spatial setting: unspecified / Temporal setting: unspecified
20 Which of the following is NOT a symbolic meaning that angels may have in this poem?
They embody holiness.

They mediate between Heaven and Earth.

They symbolize free will and rebellion.

They transcend boundaries.
21 What does the speaker mean when they say "Music shall untune the sky"?
Music will outlive the human race.

Music will be used in warfare.

Music will be gone by the time of the apocalypse.

Music will be involved in the reordering of the universe.
22 In what year was this poem published?
1687

1739

1692

1631
23 Which of the following was not inspired by this poem?
“Hail! Bright Cecilia" by Henry Purcell

"The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia" by Raphael

“Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day” by George Frideric Handel

“Ode to St. Cecilia" by Nicholas Brady
24 Which of the following INCORRECTLY describes the use of the word "harmony" in the poem?
It is misspelled in the poem.

It is used in an alliteration.

It appears in a refrain.

It is a reference to Pythagorean philosophy.
25 "From harmony, from heavenly harmony, / This universal frame began" does NOT feature which of the following?
Alliteration

Consonance

Personification

Iambic meter

A song for st.cecilia’s day by John Dryden?

Though “A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687” celebrates a Catholic holiday, the poem contains references to more than one belief system. Alongside the Biblical references to Jubal, Heaven, and angels, and the Catholic narrative of St. Cecilia, the...

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Answered by Aslan on 10/15/2023 4:32 AM