1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish? Victorian Romantic Transcendental Modernist 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? Nature is on our side Time is personified The writer keeps his distance The reader is implicated 4 Besides wind, what is the most frequently used image in Memory Green? Dark skies Empty streets Teary eyes Dying leaves 5 What does the word "sweetness" refer to in Memory Green? Good health Excitement Nostalgia Cheerfulness 6 The changing weather has what effect in Memory Green? Evokes fear about environmental change Evokes frustration about unpredictable weather Evokes a religious fervor Evokes time's effects on the mind 7 Why does MacLeish reference the senses in Memory Green? The senses trigger memories and emotion The senses bring ecstatic joy The senses represent freedom The senses overpower nature 8 What do you think the speaker wants the reader to feel? Tickled and amused Invigorated and energized Wistful and moved 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 They are places of artistic expression The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place 10 Why does MacLeish use the future verb tense ("You will...")? Because the experience he describes is part of the human condition He wants every reader to believe him He hopes to evoke a mystical quality He knows the person he is speaking about 11 How is Memory Green similar to other MacLeish poems? It helps the reader forget his troubles for a while It makes the reader want to laugh with joy It has an underlying motive of environmental conservation It touches on limitations of the human experience 12 When during the poem does the reader first become aware that MacLeish is referring to nostalgia? "You will close your eyes: With whom, you will say, / Ah where?" "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," "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 MacLeish wants to show how silly nostalgia is Because MacLeish has mixed feelings about seasons Because the speaker is asking the reader for answers Because we will always try to remember what we cannot 14 What concept is mentioned in both Memory Green and Ars Poetica? Grief Memory Language History 15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born? Illinois Scotland California England 16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university? Edinburgh Yale Cambridge Harvard 17 What big event happened a few years after MacLeish married? He served as Librarian of Congress He served in WWI He wrote a famous screenplay He won his first Pulitzer Prize 18 Where did MacLeish attend law school? Yale Oxford Harvard Columbia 19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession? The day he made partner The day he joined the army The day he published his first book The day he met Ada Hitchcock 20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador? He became an expatriate He followed the route of Hemingway He studied fascism in Spain He followed the route of Cortez' army 21 What are two main ties connecting MacLeish's life to the Roosevelt family? a library and a screenplay a speech and an apology a poem and a novel a war and a play 22 Based on his life and work, what was MacLeish obsessed with conceptually? time humor money celibacy 23 What was the name of MacLeish's wife? Ava Winthrop Amy Cortez Elle Cummings Ada Hitchcock 24 Which war did MacLeish serve in? Vietnam WWI WWII Mexican-American War 25 What do the tears in "Memory Green" indicate? All tears are tears of grief One can have a strong feeling and not know why The constant wind is causing the subject's eyes to water The subject of the poem has dementia