Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1902

1905

1837

1844
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?
Spoil

Rip

Place carefully

File away
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?
First-person

It varies

Third-person

Second-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?
"But that lock of silky hair,"

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"Paints their image on the mind."
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Neglect

Aging

Memory

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

Octaves

Couplets

Quatrains
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA

ABAC

ABAB

ABCB
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 poetic ability

Her good penmanship

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

The woman carries a locket around

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

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

Victorian poetry

Elizabethan poetry

War epic
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Elizabeth

Lydia and Mary

Sylvia and Lavinia
16 When was the poem originally written?
1848

1905

1837

1840
17 Where was Brontë born?
Devonshire

Thornton

Cornwall

London
18 How long is the poem?
Three stanzas

One stanza

Six stanzas

Two stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The protagonist looking into a mirror

The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker vanishing from the story

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

Her family

Her sense of self

Her lover
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's broken marriage

The woman's financial troubles

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 organizes them into four-line statements

It limits Brontë's word choice

It serves no practical purpose

It makes them musical
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?
A love letter

A sonnet

A novel

A birthday card
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?
Never

The third stanza

The second stanza

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

Rueful

Dour

Tragic

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