Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1837

1902

1844

1905
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?
A love letter

The woman's hands

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's photo in a locket
4 What is the perspective of the poem?
First-person

It varies

Third-person

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

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Agnes Grey
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."

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

Memory

Healing

Aging
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Sextets

Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCB

ABAC

ABBA

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

A dead tree

A pile of leaves

A frozen lake
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?
"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"
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

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

A portrait of the woman shows what she looked like when she was younger
14 What is the poem's genre?
Victorian poetry

War epic

Elizabethan poetry

Haiku
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Lydia and Mary

Sylvia and Lavinia

Jane and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte
16 When was the poem originally written?
1837

1840

1905

1848
17 Where was Brontë born?
London

Devonshire

Cornwall

Thornton
18 How long is the poem?
One stanza

Two stanzas

Six stanzas

Three stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The speaker remembering an important detail

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The protagonist writing a letter
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?
Her sense of self

Her lover

Her family

Her home
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's fractured family

The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's financial troubles
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?
It limits Brontë's word choice

It organizes them into four-line statements

It makes them musical

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

A novel

A birthday card

A sonnet
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?
Tragic

Wry

Rueful

Dour

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