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