1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's thoughts The daughter's anxieties The daughter's artworks The daughter's friends 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "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," "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" 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? Metonymy Onomatopoeia Alliteration Assonance 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is something that increases with age and experience Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable 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 Octets Sestets Quatrains 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Blanket Eyelid Curtain Jar lid 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Monument Prayer Daydream Brook 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Sublimity Artistry Memorability Stability 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" "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" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABACDCAB AABBCDDC ABBACDDC ABABCDCD 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Spondaic Monometer Iambic Trimeter Iambic Pentameter Trochaic Hexameter 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Frightening Stopping Observing Burdening 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? Nature's wrath The changing seasons Danger and extremes Agricultural abundance 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Aphrodite Helen of Troy Cleopatra Queen Victoria 18 Where is the poem set? The Tower of London Dublin in 1916 A battlefield during World War I An Irish woodland 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 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 man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A version of W.B. Yeats himself A martyr for Irish independence before his execution A mother with a sick child 23 What is a linnet? A candle A nightgown A bird A baby 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Reason Overstatement Generosity Heat 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "The soul recovers radical innocence" "though every face should scowl" "May she be granted beauty" "let her think opinions are accursed."
