Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quizzes

Long Neglect Has Worn Away Quiz

1 When was the poem first published?

1905

1837

1844

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

Spoil

Rip

Place carefully

File away
3 What does the poem begin with a description of?

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

The woman's hands

A love letter

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

First-person

Second-person

It varies

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

Shirley

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Grey

Jane Eyre
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Mold and damp the face defile."

"Paints their image on the mind."
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?

Octaves

Couplets

Sextets

Quatrains
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCB

ABAC

ABBA

ABAB
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 poetic ability

Her good penmanship

Her former beauty and happiness

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

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"Swiftly flew the fingers fine"

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"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

Traces of the woman's beauty suggest what she used to look like

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

Haiku

Elizabethan poetry

War epic

Victorian poetry
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

1848

1840

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?

Cornwall

London

Devonshire

Thornton
18 How long is the poem?

One stanza

Three stanzas

Two stanzas

Six stanzas
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The speaker remembering an important detail

The protagonist writing a letter

The protagonist looking into a mirror

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

Her sense of self

Her home

Her family

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

The woman's financial troubles

The woman's suffering from time and neglect

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 love letter

A sonnet

A novel

A birthday card
24 When does the speaker appear in the poem?

The second stanza

Never

The third stanza

The first stanza
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Dour

Wry

Rueful

Tragic

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