Memory Green Quizzes

Memory Green Quiz

1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish?
Romantic

Transcendental

Modernist

Victorian
2 How does Memory Green begin?
With a question

With a wish

With an affirmative statement

With a demand
3 What is the effect of the second person in Memory Green?
The reader is implicated

Time is personified

Nature is on our side

The writer keeps his distance
4 Besides wind, what is the most frequently used image in Memory Green?
Empty streets

Dying leaves

Dark skies

Teary eyes
5 What does the word "sweetness" refer to in Memory Green?
Excitement

Cheerfulness

Nostalgia

Good health
6 The changing weather has what effect in Memory Green?
Evokes frustration about unpredictable weather

Evokes fear about environmental change

Evokes time's effects on the mind

Evokes a religious fervor
7 Why does MacLeish reference the senses in Memory Green?
The senses bring ecstatic joy

The senses trigger memories and emotion

The senses overpower nature

The senses represent freedom
8 What do you think the speaker wants the reader to feel?
Content and peaceful

Wistful and moved

Tickled and amused

Invigorated and energized
9 What is the most important point of naming both Friedrichstrasse and the Parisian quay?
They are places of artistic expression

The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place

They are places known to be windy

They are recognizable to modernist readers
10 Why does MacLeish use the future verb tense ("You will...")?
He knows the person he is speaking about

He wants every reader to believe him

Because the experience he describes is part of the human condition

He hopes to evoke a mystical quality
11 How is Memory Green similar to other MacLeish poems?
It makes the reader want to laugh with joy

It helps the reader forget his troubles for a while

It has an underlying motive of environmental conservation

It touches on limitations of the human experience
12 When during the poem does the reader first become aware that MacLeish is referring to nostalgia?
"You will not understand why suddenly sweetness / Fills in your heart nor the tears come to your eyes:"

"You will close your eyes: With whom, you will say, / Ah where?"

"Or you in Paris on the windy quay / Shuffle the shallow fallen leaves before you"

"And the southwest wind that smells of rain and summer / Strips the huge branches of their dying leaves,"
13 Why does "Memory Green" end on a question?
Because we will always try to remember what we cannot

Because MacLeish wants to show how silly nostalgia is

Because MacLeish has mixed feelings about seasons

Because the speaker is asking the reader for answers
14 What concept is mentioned in both Memory Green and Ars Poetica?
Language

History

Grief

Memory
15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born?
England

Scotland

California

Illinois
16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university?
Cambridge

Harvard

Edinburgh

Yale
17 What big event happened a few years after MacLeish married?
He served as Librarian of Congress

He won his first Pulitzer Prize

He served in WWI

He wrote a famous screenplay
18 Where did MacLeish attend law school?
Yale

Columbia

Harvard

Oxford
19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession?
The day he published his first book

The day he joined the army

The day he made partner

The day he met Ada Hitchcock
20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador?
He followed the route of Cortez' army

He followed the route of Hemingway

He studied fascism in Spain

He became an expatriate
21 What are two main ties connecting MacLeish's life to the Roosevelt family?
a war and a play

a speech and an apology

a library and a screenplay

a poem and a novel
22 Based on his life and work, what was MacLeish obsessed with conceptually?
celibacy

money

humor

time
23 What was the name of MacLeish's wife?
Ada Hitchcock

Elle Cummings

Amy Cortez

Ava Winthrop
24 Which war did MacLeish serve in?
Vietnam

WWII

WWI

Mexican-American War
25 What do the tears in "Memory Green" indicate?
All tears are tears of grief

The constant wind is causing the subject's eyes to water

The subject of the poem has dementia

One can have a strong feeling and not know why

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