Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1844

1905

1902

1837
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?
File away

Rip

Place carefully

Spoil
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?
The woman's hands

A love letter

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's faded beauty and happiness
4 What is the perspective of the poem?
Second-person

Third-person

It varies

First-person
5 What novel is Emily Brontë famous for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Shirley

Jane Eyre

Agnes Grey
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Mold and damp the face defile."
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Memory

Healing

Aging

Neglect
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Octaves

Quatrains

Sextets

Couplets
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAC

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB
10 To what does the speaker compare the woman's faded beauty in the first stanza?
A pile of leaves

A frozen lake

A dead tree

A wilted flower
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her good penmanship

Her current depression

Her poetic ability

Her former beauty and happiness
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"
13 What does the line "Tells what once those features were" mean in the poem?
The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

A portrait of the woman shows what she looked like when she was younger

Traces of the woman's beauty suggest what she used to look like

The woman carries a locket around
14 What is the poem's genre?
Haiku

War epic

Elizabethan poetry

Victorian poetry
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Sylvia and Lavinia

Lydia and Mary

Jane and Elizabeth
16 When was the poem originally written?
1837

1840

1905

1848
17 Where was Brontë born?
Devonshire

Cornwall

Thornton

London
18 How long is the poem?
One stanza

Six stanzas

Two stanzas

Three stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist looking into a mirror
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?
Her lover

Her home

Her sense of self

Her family
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's fractured family

The woman's broken marriage
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?
It serves no practical purpose

It makes them musical

It organizes them into four-line statements

It limits Brontë's word choice
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?
A birthday card

A novel

A sonnet

A love letter
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?
The third stanza

The second stanza

Never

The first stanza
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Wry

Dour

Rueful

Tragic

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