Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1902

1837

1905

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

Place carefully

Spoil

Rip
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?
First-person

It varies

Third-person

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

Agnes Grey

Wuthering Heights

Shirley
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

Memory

Healing

Neglect
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Quatrains

Couplets

Sextets

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 dead tree

A frozen lake

A wilted flower

A pile of leaves
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?
"Paints their image on the mind."

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"But that lock of silky hair,"
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

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

Traces of the woman's beauty suggest what she used to look like
14 What is the poem's genre?
Elizabethan poetry

Victorian poetry

Haiku

War epic
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Jane and Elizabeth

Lydia and Mary

Sylvia and Lavinia

Anne and Charlotte
16 When was the poem originally written?
1848

1840

1837

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?
Cornwall

Devonshire

London

Thornton
18 How long is the poem?
One stanza

Three stanzas

Six stanzas

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

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist writing a letter

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

Her sense of self

Her family

Her home
21 What is the main conflict of the poem?
The woman's suffering from time and neglect

The woman's fractured family

The woman's financial troubles

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

It makes them musical

It organizes them into four-line statements

It serves no practical purpose
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?
The third stanza

The first stanza

Never

The second stanza
25 What is the tone of the poem?
Rueful

Dour

Tragic

Wry

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