Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?

1905

1844

1837

1902
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?

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's photo in a locket

A love letter

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

Third-person

Second-person

It varies

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

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Shirley

Agnes Grey
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Mold and damp the face defile."

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

Aging

Neglect

Healing

Memory
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Sextets

Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves
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 wilted flower

A dead tree

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 good penmanship

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

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"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 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

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

Haiku

War epic

Elizabethan poetry

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

Lydia and Mary

Sylvia and Lavinia

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Elizabeth
16 When was the poem originally written?

1905

1848

1837

1840
17 Where was Brontë born?

Thornton

Devonshire

Cornwall

London
18 How long is the poem?

One stanza

Three stanzas

Six stanzas

Two stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The speaker remembering an important detail

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist writing a letter

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

Her family

Her sense of self

Her home

Her lover
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 serves no practical purpose

It organizes them into four-line statements

It limits Brontë's word choice

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

A novel

A love letter

A birthday card

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

The second stanza

The first stanza

Never

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

Rueful

Dour

Tragic

Wry

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