Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?
1837

1902

1844

1905
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 photo in a locket

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

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?
Agnes Grey

Wuthering Heights

Shirley

Jane Eyre
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?
"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"Paints their image on the mind."

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

Memory

Aging

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

Couplets

Octaves

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

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
10 To what does the speaker compare the woman's faded beauty in the first stanza?
A pile of leaves

A wilted flower

A dead tree

A frozen lake
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?
Her former beauty and happiness

Her current depression

Her poetic ability

Her good penmanship
12 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"
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

A portrait of the woman shows what she looked like when she was younger

The woman's former beloved remembers her fondly
14 What is the poem's genre?
Victorian poetry

Haiku

War epic

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

Jane and Elizabeth

Lydia and Mary

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

1837

1840

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?
Thornton

Devonshire

Cornwall

London
18 How long is the poem?
Two stanzas

Three stanzas

One stanza

Six stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?
The protagonist writing a letter

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist looking into a mirror

The speaker vanishing from the story
20 What is it implied the woman no longer has?
Her family

Her lover

Her sense of self

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

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's fractured family

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 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 love letter

A sonnet

A novel
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?
Wry

Rueful

Dour

Tragic

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