Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

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1 When was the poem first published?

1844

1837

1905

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

Rip

Place carefully

File away

Spoil
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?

The woman's hands

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

A love letter
4 What is the perspective of the poem?

Second-person

Third-person

It varies

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

Wuthering Heights

Shirley

Agnes Grey

Jane Eyre
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Memory

Neglect

Aging

Healing
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Couplets

Octaves

Sextets

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 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 former beauty and happiness

Her good penmanship

Her poetic ability

Her current depression
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Paints their image on the mind."
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

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?

Victorian poetry

War epic

Elizabethan poetry

Haiku
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?

1837

1848

1905

1840
17 Where was Brontë born?

London

Thornton

Devonshire

Cornwall
18 How long is the poem?

One stanza

Six stanzas

Two stanzas

Three stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker remembering an important detail

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist writing a letter
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?

Her home

Her lover

Her sense of self

Her family
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 serves no practical purpose

It makes them musical

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

A sonnet

A love letter

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

Dour

Rueful

Tragic

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