1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's anxieties The daughter's friends The daughter's artworks The daughter's thoughts 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," "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool" "Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn" 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? Onomatopoeia Metonymy Assonance Alliteration 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances Beauty is something that increases with age and experience Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined 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 Blanket Eyelid Curtain 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Prayer Brook Monument Daydream 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Stability Artistry Sublimity Memorability 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "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" "the storm is howling" "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABABCDCD ABBACDDC ABACDCAB AABBCDDC 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Iambic Pentameter Spondaic Monometer Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Trimeter 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Observing Frightening Stopping Burdening 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 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? 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? Helen of Troy Cleopatra Queen Victoria Aphrodite 18 Where is the poem set? Dublin in 1916 A battlefield during World War I An Irish woodland The Tower of London 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Mistrustful Disorganized Upset Uncertain 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Politeness Nobility Tradition Bluntness 21 Which of the following is true of the poem? The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes 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 martyr for Irish independence before his execution A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A version of W.B. Yeats himself 23 What is a linnet? A nightgown A candle A bird A baby 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Reason Generosity Heat Overstatement 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "let her think opinions are accursed." "The soul recovers radical innocence" "though every face should scowl" "May she be granted beauty"
