Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?

1905

1837

1844

1902
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?

File away

Spoil

Rip

Place carefully
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?

A love letter

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's hands

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

First-person

Third-person

It varies

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

Agnes Grey

Shirley

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Neglect

Healing

Aging

Memory
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Couplets

Octaves

Quatrains

Sextets
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAC

ABBA

ABCB

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

A wilted flower

A pile of leaves

A dead tree

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

Her former beauty and happiness

Her poetic ability

Her current depression

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

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"
13 What does the line "Tells what once those features were" mean in the poem?

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's former beloved remembers her fondly

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

War epic

Haiku

Elizabethan poetry

Victorian poetry
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Lydia and Mary

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Elizabeth

Sylvia and Lavinia
16 When was the poem originally written?

1848

1837

1840

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?

London

Thornton

Cornwall

Devonshire
18 How long is the poem?

Two stanzas

Three stanzas

Six stanzas

One stanza
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The protagonist writing a letter

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker vanishing from the story

The speaker remembering an important detail
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?

Her family

Her home

Her lover

Her sense of self
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's fractured family

The woman's suffering from time and neglect
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 love letter

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

Never

The second stanza

The third stanza

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

Wry

Dour

Rueful

Tragic

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