Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1856

1841

1851

1846
2 When does the poem take place?
During winter

During autumn

During spring

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

Sextets

Octaves

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

Her lover's grave

On mountains

At the top of green hills
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?
Two

Fifteen

Five

Twelve
6 What does the speaker mean in the line "No later light has lightened up my heaven"?
That the winter is particularly brutal

That she has never felt as happy as she was when her lover was alive

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?
Free verse

ABCB

ABAB

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Acrostic

Villanelle

Pastoral

Elegy
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Sunny

Mournful

Understated

Dry
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Carlos Williams

Herman Melville

Walt Whitman
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy."

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

"While the world's tide is bearing me along;"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Overcoming a lengthy illness
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elizabeth Bishop

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

Nine

Five

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

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

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"
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 way the world has not given her a moment's rest

The demands the world has made on her life
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Middlemarch

Jane Eyre

Agnes Gray

Wuthering Heights
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Elizabeth and Mary

Cristine and Clarissa

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

Marriage

Death

Closure
21 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
A golden ring

A lightning bolt

A grave

A rose
22 What is the meaning of the word "rapturous" in the poem?
Dreary

Enthusiastic

Dour

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

The snowfall of that year

The coldest winter of her lifetime

The number of years her beloved has been dead
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Depressing

Ecstatic

Nervous

Uplifting
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?
Anxiety

Marriage

Loss

Love

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