Cousin Kate Quizzes

Cousin Kate Quiz

1 To whom does the speaker address the poem's final lines?
Her husband

Her mother

Her cousin

Her son
2 Why does the lord prefer Kate to the speaker?
She is more intelligent

She is fairer

She is wealthier

She is more trusting
3 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAC

ABAB

ABBA

ABCB
4 Which best describes the speaker at the start of the poem's events?
Selfless

Precocious

Cynical

Naive
5 Which homes do the speaker and lord respectively live in?
A cottage and a palace

A studio apartment and a townhouse

A bungalow and a mansion

A hut and a villa
6 Which of the following can be considered a symbol of the speaker's identity?
A silk scarf

The Palace

Blond hair

The Dove
7 Which of the following is a motif in this work?
Money

Furniture

Clothing

Makeup
8 Which of the following is an example of simile?
"He lifted you from mean estate"

"He changed me like a glove"

"Hardened by sun and air"

"Your love was writ in sand"
9 Which type of love is NOT explored in this work?
Maternal

Familial

Divine

Sexual
10 To whom does the speaker address the middle stanzas of the poem?
Kate

The lord

The neighbors

The son
11 Where is the poem set?
A Victorian boarding school

A medieval English town

Paris in the 1950s

A monastery in Spain
12 Which musical form does this poem mimic?
The ballad

The rock song

The spiritual

The hymn
13 The coronet is an example of which of the following?
Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Simile

Metonymy
14 Which type of stanzas make up this poem?
Quaitrain

Octet

Sestet

Quintain
15 Why does the speaker express anger at Kate?
For refusing to help around the house

For failing to defend her against the lord

For spreading rumors of her promiscuity

For trying to influence her son
16 Which is NOT a possible meaning of the word "fair" as used in this poem?
Light colored

Beautiful

Just

Carnival
17 How does Rossetti explore the theme of purity in this work?
By showing how her speaker is held to draconian standards of chastity

By contrasting the purity of childhood with the jadedness of adulthood

By discussing the purity and naivete of the aristocratic class

By demonstrating Kate's selfless moral purity in helping the speaker
18 What does the word "mean" most closely mean in this poem?
Humble

Cruel

Average

Signify
19 Which of the following themes is prominent in this poem?
War

Race

Power

Industrialization
20 Which of the following phrases contains alliteration?
"cling closer"

"wear his coronet"

"among the rye"

"might have been a dove"
21 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
Care

Sand

Sing

Moan
22 What does Rossetti subtly critique in this work?
The Vietnam war

Victorian sexual politics

Higher education

Catholicism
23 Which type of metrical foot is used?
Iambs

Trochees

Spondees

Dactyls
24 Which of the following can the dove NOT be said to signify?
Peace

Monogamy

Freedom

Conformity
25 What does the word "flaxen" most closely mean in this poem?
Natural

Harvested

Thatched

Blond

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