1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's artworks The daughter's anxieties The daughter's friends The daughter's thoughts 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? Physical strength and size Age and wisdom Sublime beauty Rootedness in place 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Onomatopoeia Alliteration Assonance Metonymy 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined 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 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Quintains Octets Quatrains Sestets 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Jar lid Curtain Eyelid Blanket 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Brook Prayer Monument Daydream 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Sublimity Memorability Stability Artistry 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "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" "the storm is howling" "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? AABBCDDC ABACDCAB 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? Burdening Frightening Observing Stopping 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Understatement Synecdoche Hyperbole Simile 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? The changing seasons Agricultural abundance Danger and extremes Nature's wrath 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Queen Victoria Cleopatra Aphrodite Helen of Troy 18 Where is the poem set? The Tower of London Dublin in 1916 An Irish woodland A battlefield during World War I 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Mistrustful Disorganized Upset Uncertain 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Politeness Bluntness Tradition Nobility 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 instructs his daughter to follow her passions The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A mother with a sick child A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A martyr for Irish independence before his execution A version of W.B. Yeats himself 23 What is a linnet? A bird A candle A nightgown A baby 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Reason Overstatement Heat Generosity 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "let her think opinions are accursed." "May she be granted beauty" "though every face should scowl" "The soul recovers radical innocence"
