Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?

1837

1905

1844

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

File away

Rip

Spoil

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

The woman's hands

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

A love letter

The woman's photo in a locket
4 What is the perspective of the poem?

Second-person

It varies

First-person

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

Wuthering Heights

Shirley

Jane Eyre

Agnes Grey
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"But that lock of silky hair,"

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

Healing

Aging

Neglect

Memory
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Couplets

Quatrains

Sextets

Octaves
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABAC

ABAB

ABCB

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

A wilted flower

A frozen lake

A pile of leaves

A dead tree
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?

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"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?

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly

The woman carries a locket around

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
14 What is the poem's genre?

Elizabethan poetry

Victorian poetry

Haiku

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

Sylvia and Lavinia

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Elizabeth

Lydia and Mary
16 When was the poem originally written?

1837

1840

1848

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?

Devonshire

London

Cornwall

Thornton
18 How long is the poem?

Six stanzas

One stanza

Three stanzas

Two stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The protagonist writing a letter

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

Her sense of self

Her family

Her home

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

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's fractured family

The woman's broken marriage

The woman's suffering from time and neglect
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?

It limits Brontë's word choice

It makes them musical

It serves no practical purpose

It organizes them into four-line statements
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?

A sonnet

A birthday card

A love letter

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

The second stanza

The first stanza

The third stanza

Never
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Wry

Rueful

Dour

Tragic

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