Sea Rose Quizzes

Sea Rose Quiz

1 Where was H.D. born?
Pennsylvania

New York

Israel

Connecticut
2 Where did H.D. first attend college?
Boston College

Bryn Mawr

Bowdoin

Bates
3 What famous poet was a classmate of H.D.?
Elizabeth Bishop

Marianne Moore

Gertrude Stein

T.S. Eliot
4 What kind of mythology did H.D. often use in her work?
Jewish

German

Greek

Christian
5 How many siblings did H.D. have?
6

4

5

3
6 What does H.D. stand for?
Hilda Doolittle

Henrietta Davis

Helga Donnelly

Harriet Donne
7 What two famous male poets were particularly important in H.D.'s early poetic career?
Archibald MacLeish and John Ashbery

T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost

W.S. Merwin and e.e. cummings

Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams
8 When did H.D. first travel to Europe?
1912

1920

1899

1911
9 What was H.D.'s first collection titled?
Ripostes

Heliodora

Sea Garden

Helena
10 What year did H.D. die?
1974

1947

1920

1961
11 How does H.D. first describe the sea rose in her poem "Sea Rose"?
haggard

harsh

tender

brutal
12 In what stanza of "Sea Rose" does the reader begin to understand H.D.'s perspective on the sea rose?
third

second

first

fourth
13 Does H.D. demonstrate in "Sea Rose" her admiration of the physical beauty of women?
Only at the end of the poem

No

Only in the third stanza

Yes
14 In what stanza of "Sea Rose" does H.D. shift to second person?
fourth

she doesn't

third

second
15 What movement does H.D.'s poem "Sea Rose" contribute to?
Feminist movement

Nativist movement

Conservation movement

Civil Rights movement
16 What traumatic event occurred right before H.D. wrote "Sea Rose"?
Father's death

Car accident

Stillbirth

WWII
17 What word has an unexpectedly positive connotation in the last stanza of "Sea Rose"?
Acrid

Spice-rose

Single

Leaf
18 How is the sand described in "Sea Rose"?
Hardened

Harsh

Drifting

Crisp
19 What is the sea rose a symbol for in "Sea Rose"?
A woman that is comfortable conforming to society's expectations

The substantive, underrated qualities of femininity

Masculine traits in women that make them appealing

The uglier, more shameful parts of life
20 What does the physical movement of the sea rose in "Sea Rose" represent?
Freedom

Hardship

Defeat

Rebellion
21 What trait does H.D. seem to think is an overrated determinant of value in "Sea Rose"?
Physical strength

Hearty resilience

Aesthetic perfection

Rustic wildness
22 When was "Sea Rose" published?
1916

1918

1905

1952
23 What is the sea rose "more precious" than in "Sea Rose"?
The sea itself

A lone leaf

The traditional rose

Time in nature
24 What effect does the poem's final question have?
It suggests that there is more to femininity than sweetness and beauty

It makes the reader realize that roses are often overrated

It makes the reader question how fragrance affects the psyche

It challenges whether men should care how women smell
25 In "Sea Rose" the speaker addresses the sea rose, saying "You are caught in the drift." How might we interpret this allegorically?
The sea rose has been affected and changed by the tumult of life

The sea rose has succumbed to apathy and submission

The sea rose is one with the earth's history

The sea rose longs to be like the traditional rose

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