Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?

1902

1905

1844

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

Place carefully

Rip

File away

Spoil
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's hands

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

A love letter
4 What is the perspective of the poem?

It varies

First-person

Second-person

Third-person
5 What novel is Emily Brontë famous for writing?

Agnes Grey

Wuthering Heights

Shirley

Jane Eyre
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"Paints their image on the mind."

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

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

Healing

Memory

Neglect

Aging
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Quatrains

Couplets

Sextets

Octaves
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAB

ABAC

ABCB

ABBA
10 To what does the speaker compare the woman's faded beauty in the first stanza?

A dead tree

A pile of leaves

A wilted flower

A frozen lake
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?

Her poetic ability

Her good penmanship

Her current depression

Her former beauty and happiness
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"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?

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

The woman carries a locket around

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

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly
14 What is the poem's genre?

Elizabethan poetry

Haiku

Victorian poetry

War epic
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Sylvia and Lavinia

Lydia and Mary

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Elizabeth
16 When was the poem originally written?

1905

1837

1840

1848
17 Where was Brontë born?

Thornton

Cornwall

Devonshire

London
18 How long is the poem?

Two stanzas

Six stanzas

One stanza

Three stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker vanishing from the story
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?

Her home

Her sense of self

Her family

Her lover
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's fractured family
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?

It limits Brontë's word choice

It makes them musical

It organizes them into four-line statements

It serves no practical purpose
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?

A love letter

A birthday card

A sonnet

A novel
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?

The third stanza

Never

The first stanza

The second stanza
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Rueful

Tragic

Dour

Wry

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