Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1844

1902

1905

1837
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?
Rip

Place carefully

File away

Spoil
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?
A love letter

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's hands
4 What is the perspective of the poem?
It varies

Third-person

First-person

Second-person
5 What novel is Emily Brontë famous for writing?
Shirley

Agnes Grey

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Healing

Neglect

Memory

Aging
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Sextets

Quatrains

Octaves

Couplets
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAC

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB
10 To what does the speaker compare the woman's faded beauty in the first stanza?
A pile of leaves

A frozen lake

A dead tree

A wilted flower
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her current depression

Her former beauty and happiness

Her good penmanship

Her poetic ability
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"Paints their image on the mind."
13 What does the line "Tells what once those features were" mean in the poem?
Traces of the woman's beauty suggest what she used to look like

The woman carries a locket around

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

A portrait of the woman shows what she looked like when she was younger
14 What is the poem's genre?
Haiku

War epic

Victorian poetry

Elizabethan poetry
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Lydia and Mary

Sylvia and Lavinia

Jane and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte
16 When was the poem originally written?
1905

1837

1840

1848
17 Where was Brontë born?
London

Thornton

Devonshire

Cornwall
18 How long is the poem?
One stanza

Six stanzas

Two stanzas

Three stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker vanishing from the story
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?
Her lover

Her family

Her sense of self

Her home
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's financial troubles

The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's fractured family

The woman's broken marriage
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?
It limits Brontë's word choice

It organizes them into four-line statements

It serves no practical purpose

It makes them musical
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?
A novel

A sonnet

A birthday card

A love letter
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?
The first stanza

The second stanza

The third stanza

Never
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Tragic

Rueful

Wry

Dour

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