Sea Rose Quizzes

Sea Rose Quiz

1 Where was H.D. born?
Connecticut

Pennsylvania

Israel

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

Bowdoin

Bryn Mawr

Bates
3 What famous poet was a classmate of H.D.?
Gertrude Stein

Elizabeth Bishop

T.S. Eliot

Marianne Moore
4 What kind of mythology did H.D. often use in her work?
Christian

Greek

Jewish

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

5

4

3
6 What does H.D. stand for?
Helga Donnelly

Hilda Doolittle

Henrietta Davis

Harriet Donne
7 What two famous male poets were particularly important in H.D.'s early poetic career?
W.S. Merwin and e.e. cummings

T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost

Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams

Archibald MacLeish and John Ashbery
8 When did H.D. first travel to Europe?
1912

1920

1899

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

Helena

Sea Garden

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

1961

1947

1920
11 How does H.D. first describe the sea rose in her poem "Sea Rose"?
tender

brutal

harsh

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

first

second

fourth
13 Does H.D. demonstrate in "Sea Rose" her admiration of the physical beauty of women?
No

Yes

Only at the end of the poem

Only in the third stanza
14 In what stanza of "Sea Rose" does H.D. shift to second person?
second

fourth

third

she doesn't
15 What movement does H.D.'s poem "Sea Rose" contribute to?
Nativist movement

Feminist movement

Conservation movement

Civil Rights movement
16 What traumatic event occurred right before H.D. wrote "Sea Rose"?
Car accident

Stillbirth

WWII

Father's death
17 What word has an unexpectedly positive connotation in the last stanza of "Sea Rose"?
Leaf

Single

Acrid

Spice-rose
18 How is the sand described in "Sea Rose"?
Harsh

Crisp

Hardened

Drifting
19 What is the sea rose a symbol for in "Sea Rose"?
The uglier, more shameful parts of life

A woman that is comfortable conforming to society's expectations

Masculine traits in women that make them appealing

The substantive, underrated qualities of femininity
20 What does the physical movement of the sea rose in "Sea Rose" represent?
Hardship

Defeat

Freedom

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

Aesthetic perfection

Rustic wildness

Physical strength
22 When was "Sea Rose" published?
1916

1918

1952

1905
23 What is the sea rose "more precious" than in "Sea Rose"?
Time in nature

The traditional rose

The sea itself

A lone leaf
24 What effect does the poem's final question have?
It makes the reader question how fragrance affects the psyche

It makes the reader realize that roses are often overrated

It suggests that there is more to femininity than sweetness and beauty

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 is one with the earth's history

The sea rose has succumbed to apathy and submission

The sea rose has been affected and changed by the tumult of life

The sea rose longs to be like the traditional rose

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