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