Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1902

1844

1905

1837
2 What does the word "defile" mean in the poem?
Rip

File away

Spoil

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?
It varies

Third-person

Second-person

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

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

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?
Neglect

Aging

Healing

Memory
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Sextets

Couplets

Quatrains

Octaves
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAC

ABCB

ABAB

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

A frozen lake

A pile of leaves

A wilted flower
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her current depression

Her good penmanship

Her poetic ability

Her former beauty and happiness
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Paints their image on the mind."
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?
War epic

Haiku

Elizabethan poetry

Victorian poetry
15 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Lydia and Mary

Jane and Elizabeth

Sylvia and Lavinia
16 When was the poem originally written?
1848

1905

1837

1840
17 Where was Brontë born?
London

Devonshire

Thornton

Cornwall
18 How long is the poem?
Three stanzas

Six stanzas

One stanza

Two stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker vanishing from the story

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

Her lover

Her home

Her sense of self
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 makes them musical

It limits Brontë's word choice

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 birthday card

A novel

A sonnet

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

Never

The first stanza

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

Wry

Rueful

Dour

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