1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's thoughts The daughter's anxieties The daughter's friends The daughter's artworks 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn" "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," "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool" 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Age and wisdom Physical strength and size Sublime beauty Rootedness in place 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Alliteration Assonance Metonymy Onomatopoeia 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable Beauty is something that increases with age and experience Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Quintains Sestets Octets Quatrains 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Eyelid Jar lid Blanket Curtain 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Daydream Brook Monument Prayer 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Memorability Artistry Sublimity Stability 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? AABBCDDC ABABCDCD ABBACDDC ABACDCAB 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Trimeter Iambic Pentameter Spondaic Monometer 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? Hyperbole Synecdoche Simile Understatement 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 the same age as her mother was when she was born She is not yet born 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? Cleopatra Queen Victoria Aphrodite Helen of Troy 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? Mistrustful Upset Disorganized Uncertain 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Nobility Bluntness Tradition Politeness 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 instructs his daughter to follow her passions The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A mother with a sick child A version of W.B. Yeats himself A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A martyr for Irish independence before his execution 23 What is a linnet? A baby A nightgown A bird A candle 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Heat Reason Overstatement Generosity 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "May she be granted beauty" "The soul recovers radical innocence" "though every face should scowl" "let her think opinions are accursed."