Memory Green Quizzes

Memory Green Quiz

1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish?
Transcendental

Victorian

Modernist

Romantic
2 How does Memory Green begin?
With a question

With an affirmative statement

With a wish

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

Nature is on our side

The writer keeps his distance

Time is personified
4 Besides wind, what is the most frequently used image in Memory Green?
Empty streets

Teary eyes

Dark skies

Dying leaves
5 What does the word "sweetness" refer to in Memory Green?
Cheerfulness

Nostalgia

Good health

Excitement
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?
Invigorated and energized

Wistful and moved

Tickled and amused

Content and peaceful
9 What is the most important point of naming both Friedrichstrasse and the Parisian quay?
They are recognizable to modernist readers

They are places known to be windy

The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place

They are places of artistic expression
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

He hopes to evoke a mystical quality

Because the experience he describes is part of the human condition
11 How is Memory Green similar to other MacLeish poems?
It touches on limitations of the human experience

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
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:"

"And the southwest wind that smells of rain and summer / Strips the huge branches of their dying leaves,"

"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"
13 Why does "Memory Green" end on a question?
Because the speaker is asking the reader for answers

Because MacLeish has mixed feelings about seasons

Because we will always try to remember what we cannot

Because MacLeish wants to show how silly nostalgia is
14 What concept is mentioned in both Memory Green and Ars Poetica?
Memory

History

Grief

Language
15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born?
California

Scotland

England

Illinois
16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university?
Edinburgh

Yale

Harvard

Cambridge
17 What big event happened a few years after MacLeish married?
He wrote a famous screenplay

He served as Librarian of Congress

He served in WWI

He won his first Pulitzer Prize
18 Where did MacLeish attend law school?
Oxford

Columbia

Yale

Harvard
19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession?
The day he joined the army

The day he made partner

The day he met Ada Hitchcock

The day he published his first book
20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador?
He followed the route of Hemingway

He studied fascism in Spain

He followed the route of Cortez' army

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

a war and a play

a poem and a novel

a library and a screenplay
22 Based on his life and work, what was MacLeish obsessed with conceptually?
money

time

celibacy

humor
23 What was the name of MacLeish's wife?
Elle Cummings

Ava Winthrop

Ada Hitchcock

Amy Cortez
24 Which war did MacLeish serve in?
Mexican-American War

Vietnam

WWI

WWII
25 What do the tears in "Memory Green" indicate?
All tears are tears of grief

The subject of the poem has dementia

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

One can have a strong feeling and not know why

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