Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

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1 When was the poem first published?

1902

1905

1844

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

File away

Place carefully

Rip

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

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's hands

The woman's photo in a locket

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

Second-person

Third-person

First-person

It varies
5 What novel is Emily Brontë famous for writing?

Agnes Grey

Shirley

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Memory

Aging

Neglect

Healing
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Couplets

Sextets

Quatrains

Octaves
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA

ABAC

ABCB

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

A dead tree

A wilted flower

A frozen lake

A pile of leaves
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?

Her current depression

Her former beauty and happiness

Her poetic ability

Her good penmanship
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"But that lock of silky hair,"
13 What does the line "Tells what once those features were" mean in the poem?

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

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

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

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

War epic

Elizabethan poetry

Victorian poetry

Haiku
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?

Cornwall

Devonshire

London

Thornton
18 How long is the poem?

Three stanzas

One stanza

Two stanzas

Six stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker vanishing from the story

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist writing a letter
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 fractured family

The woman's financial troubles

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

It organizes them into four-line statements

It serves no practical purpose

It makes them musical

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

A birthday card

A sonnet

A love letter

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

The second stanza

Never

The third stanza

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

Dour

Wry

Rueful

Tragic

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