Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1856

1846

1841

1851
2 When does the poem take place?
During spring

During autumn

During winter

During summer
3 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Octaves

Couplets

Sextets

Quatrains
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?
By a sea shore

At the top of green hills

On mountains

Her lover's grave
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?
Five

Two

Fifteen

Twelve
6 What does the speaker mean in the line "No later light has lightened up my heaven"?
That she has never felt as happy as she was when her lover was alive

That the winter is particularly brutal

That she has never found love again

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA

ABCB

ABAB

Free verse
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral

Elegy

Villanelle

Acrostic
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Dry

Sunny

Understated

Mournful
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Carlos Williams

Walt Whitman
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"While the world's tide is bearing me along;"

"Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy."

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Overcoming a lengthy illness

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Deciding whether or not she will remarry
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elizabeth Bishop

Henry David Thoreau

Robert Lowell
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A recently married bride

A priestess

A young mother
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Six

Five

Nine

Eight
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee"

"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"

"All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given"

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"
17 What does the speaker refer to when she says "While the world's tide is bearing me along"?
How time has passed quickly in for her

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

The demands the world has made on her life

The way the world has not given her a moment's rest
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Jane Eyre

Middlemarch

Agnes Gray

Wuthering Heights
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Elizabeth and Mary

Anne and Charlotte

Cristine and Clarissa

Jane and Margaret
20 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Time

Closure

Marriage

Death
21 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
A lightning bolt

A rose

A grave

A golden ring
22 What is the meaning of the word "rapturous" in the poem?
Anxious

Dreary

Dour

Enthusiastic
23 What is the speaker referencing in the line "Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers"?
Her age

The number of years her beloved has been dead

The snowfall of that year

The coldest winter of her lifetime
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Ecstatic

Uplifting

Depressing

Nervous
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?
Marriage

Love

Anxiety

Loss

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