1 Which book did this poem first appear in? A Book of Irish Verse The Rose The Tower Cathleen Ní Houlihan 2 What does "glad" most closely mean in this work's context? Happy Pleasing Comfortable Soft 3 What is the poem's meter? Free Verse Iambic Tetrameter Iambic pentameter Dactylic Pentameter 4 Which real-life figure was the poem likely addressed to? Georgiana Hyde-Lees Teresa Deevy James Joyce Maud Gonne 5 Which best describes the relationship between the speaker and the addressee? Political solidarity Lost love Baseless hatred Familial obligation 6 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia? Crowd Murmur Shadows Grace 7 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone? Bitter Zealous Regretful Melancholy 8 How does the speaker characterize his own love as distinct? He implies that he loves the addressee for non-superficial reasons He insists that his love is a mystical, almost magic force He argues that he actually wants to help the addressee rather than just admire her He explains that he has loved the addressee for longer than anyone else 9 The poem's contrast between the home and the wilderness is an instance of which of the following? Hyperbole Personification Parallelism Juxtaposition 10 Which best describes the poem's setting? A Victorian Dublin schoolyard An abandoned castle in Europe A magical realm A house in twentieth-century Ireland 11 How many stanzas are in this poem? One Five Four Three 12 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABBA ABC ABAB AABB 13 Which line features alliterative G sounds? How many loved your moments of glad grace But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you When you are old and grey and full of sleep Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled 14 Which emotion is personified in this poem? Regret Sadness Love Fury 15 Which of the following is true of Maud Gonne? She was an Irish revolutionary She was opposed to Yeats's radical politics She was best known as a painter She was American 16 Which of the following is true of this poem? It is written from the point of view of an inanimate object It is a direct commentary on Irish independence Its primary theme is the nature of consciousness It is written in the second person 17 Which is a conflict in the poem? The dislike between the speaker and the woman he is engaged to The fight between Irish revolutionaries and the British government The tension between youthful passion and the jadedness of age The disagreement between a young woman and her parents 18 Who is the poem's speaker? A young woman looking forward to old age An unidentified man, most likely a version of Yeats himself An old man looking back at his youth A house remembering everything that has happened within its walls 19 Which of the following is true of this poem and the way it engages with time? It takes place over a series of flashbacks It mostly takes place in a hypothetical, imagined future It describes a person who cannot distinguish the past from the future It is about time travel to Ireland's past 20 Which of the following themes does this poem engage with most? Nature and its destruction Music and art Aging and time Motherhood 21 This poem is based on an earlier work by whom? Pierre de Ronsard Christina Rosetti Seamus Heaney Petrarch 22 How is the addressee characterized by the speaker? As a likable but cruel schemer As a person so repressed by the norms of her time that she has no real personality As a kind person whose anger disguises her good intentions As superficially charming, but full of hidden depths 23 What types of stanzas are in the poem? Tercets Quatrains Couplets Octaves 24 The phrase "when you are old and grey" contains which of the following? End rhyme Allusion Simile Metonymy 25 Which of the following is one meaning of the word "pilgrim"? Sickly Romantic and softhearted A traveler to a religious site A gifted student