Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?

1837

1844

1902

1905
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?

Rip

Spoil

File away

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

A love letter

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's hands
4 What is the perspective of the poem?

Third-person

First-person

Second-person

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

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Grey

Shirley

Jane Eyre
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Mold and damp the face defile."

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

Memory

Healing

Aging

Neglect
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets

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 pile of leaves

A dead tree

A wilted flower

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

Her former beauty and happiness

Her current depression

Her good penmanship

Her poetic ability
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"
13 What does the line "Tells what once those features were" mean in the poem?

The woman carries a locket around

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
14 What is the poem's genre?

Elizabethan poetry

Haiku

Victorian poetry

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

Lydia and Mary

Jane and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

Sylvia and Lavinia
16 When was the poem originally written?

1840

1905

1848

1837
17 Where was Brontë born?

Thornton

London

Devonshire

Cornwall
18 How long is the poem?

Six stanzas

Two stanzas

One stanza

Three stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The speaker vanishing from the story

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist writing a letter

The protagonist looking into a mirror
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?

Her sense of self

Her home

Her lover

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

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's fractured family

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 birthday card

A sonnet

A novel

A love letter
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?

The second stanza

Never

The first stanza

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

Tragic

Wry

Rueful

Dour

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