1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's friends The daughter's thoughts The daughter's artworks The daughter's anxieties 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool" "For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares." "Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum," 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Rootedness in place Sublime beauty Physical strength and size Age and wisdom 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Onomatopoeia Metonymy Alliteration Assonance 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances Beauty is something that increases with age and experience 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Octets Quintains Quatrains Sestets 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Eyelid Jar lid Curtain Blanket 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Daydream Brook Prayer Monument 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Stability Artistry Memorability Sublimity 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "the storm is howling" "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" "to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABBACDDC AABBCDDC ABABCDCD ABACDCAB 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Iambic Pentameter Trochaic Hexameter Spondaic Monometer Iambic Trimeter 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Stopping Frightening Observing Burdening 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Simile Hyperbole Synecdoche Understatement 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is the same age as her mother was when she was born She is not yet born She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence She is very young and asleep 16 What does the storm most closely symbolize? Agricultural abundance The changing seasons Nature's wrath Danger and extremes 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Helen of Troy Aphrodite Cleopatra Queen Victoria 18 Where is the poem set? The Tower of London An Irish woodland Dublin in 1916 A battlefield during World War I 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Mistrustful Upset Uncertain Disorganized 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Bluntness Politeness Tradition Nobility 21 Which of the following is true of the poem? The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A version of W.B. Yeats himself A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A mother with a sick child A martyr for Irish independence before his execution 23 What is a linnet? A nightgown A baby A candle A bird 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Heat Generosity Overstatement Reason 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "let her think opinions are accursed." "The soul recovers radical innocence" "though every face should scowl" "May she be granted beauty"
