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

File away

Place carefully

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

The woman's photo in a locket

The woman's hands

The woman's faded beauty and happiness

A love letter
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

Jane Eyre

Agnes Grey

Wuthering Heights
6 Which of the following lines contains assonance?

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"'Dearest, ever deem me true';"

"Paints their image on the mind."

"Mold and damp the face defile."
7 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Healing

Aging

Memory

Neglect
8 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?

Couplets

Sextets

Quatrains

Octaves
9 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB

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

A dead tree

A frozen lake

A wilted flower

A pile of leaves
11 What does the woman's hand symbolize in the third stanza?

Her good penmanship

Her poetic ability

Her former beauty and happiness

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

"Half the sweet enchanting smile;"

"But that lock of silky hair,"

"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

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
14 What is the poem's genre?

Haiku

Victorian poetry

Elizabethan poetry

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

Sylvia and Lavinia

Anne and Charlotte

Lydia and Mary

Jane and Elizabeth
16 When was the poem originally written?

1848

1837

1840

1905
17 Where was Brontë born?

Cornwall

Thornton

Devonshire

London
18 How long is the poem?

Three stanzas

Six stanzas

Two stanzas

One stanza
19 What is the climax of the poem?

The speaker remembering an important detail

The speaker vanishing from the story

The protagonist writing a letter

The protagonist looking into a mirror
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 broken marriage

The woman's financial troubles
22 How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect its stanzas?

It serves no practical purpose

It organizes them into four-line statements

It limits Brontë's word choice

It makes them musical
23 What is the woman writing at the end of the poem?

A novel

A birthday card

A sonnet

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

Never

The first stanza

The second stanza

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

Dour

Rueful

Wry

Tragic

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