Mad Girl’s Love Song Quizzes

Mad Girl's Love Song Quiz

1 "All the world drops dead" is most likely a metaphor for what?

The death of a single loved one

The aftermath of an epidemic

The quiet of night

The momentary blocking-out of sensations
2 Which best describes the speaker's identity?

A novelist trying to come up with a dramatic love story

An old woman recounting her first heartbreak to a younger one

A man leaving his lover because she has lost her grip on reality

A woman or girl suffering from heartbreak and possible madness
3 The phrases "lift my lids" and "sung me moon-struck" both contain which of the following?

Assonance

Allegory

Internal rhyme

Dramatic irony
4 What does the word "seraphim" mean?

A mad but wise woman from Greek mythology

A type of pill once given to patients suffering from mental illness

A flourish added to handwritten calligraphy

A type of angel in several religious traditions
5 Which of the following genres does the poem NOT contain allusions to?

Fairytales

Nineteenth-century cookbooks

The Bible

Native American mythology
6 What is the poem's point of view?

Third-person singular

First-person and second-person singular

First-person plural

Second-person plural and third-person singular
7 What role do the parentheses around the line "I think I made you up inside my head" play?

They show us that the speaker is whispering

They tell us that the speaker is trying to be casual and nonchalant

They suggest that the line is spoken by a different, second speaker

They imply that the speaker cannot integrate this thought with her other experiences
8 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Carefree

Panicked

Regretful

Uncertain
9 Which best describes the poem's major conflict?

The speaker's attempt to gain control over her own mind

The speaker's arguments with her doctors and psychiatrists

The speaker's desire to get revenge on an ex-lover

The speaker's attempt to persuade her lover to return
10 What meter is the poem written in?

Dactylic trimeter

Anapestic pentamater

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic dimeter
11 The "D" sounds in the phrase "all the world drops dead" are an example of which of the following?

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Assonance
12 Which of the following phrases contains the clearest example of alliteration?

I fancied you'd return the way you said

Exit seraphim and Satan's men

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red
13 Which line can most accurately be described as the poem's climax?

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade

I lift my lids and all is born again

But I grow old and I forget your name

I should have loved a thunderbird instead
14 What does the word "fancied" mean in the poem?

Pretended

Hoped

Loved

Dressed up
15 "God topples from the sky" can best be understood as a metaphor for which of the following?

A tornado

The destruction of order

The aging of a parent

Secularization following World War I
16 Which best describes the role of the word "bed" in the phrase "bewitched me into bed"?

Metonymy

Symbolism

Understatement

Simile
17 What does the thunderbird symbolize in the poem?

Protection

Consistency

Freedom

Insanity
18 Which of the following is NOT a major theme of the poem?

Heartbreak

Mental illness

Control

Education
19 Which of the following is NOT a source of irony on the poem's title?

The title makes us expect a happy love story, but the poem focuses on heartbreak

The speaker may not even be "mad," but may simply be suffering from heartbreak

The speaker did not love, or even like, the person she is addressing

The term "girl" seems to promise juvenile concerns, but the speaker's conflicts are deep and distressing
20 What is the name given to the poem's two repeating lines?

Choruses

Refrains

Repetitions

Themes
21 Why does the speaker shut her eyes?

To endure the physical pain of electroshock therapy

To pretend she is sleeping and cannot see her lover

To gain control over and distance from an overwhelming world

To fantasize about killing her lover
22 What does the word "bewitched" most closely imply about the speaker's relationship to her lover?

That the lover is a good storyteller

That the lover seduced her through magical means

That the lover lives in a fantasy world

That the lover has a great deal of control and power over her
23 What does the word "moon-struck" mean?

Awed

Lovesick

Sleep-deprived

Close to death
24 What is this poem's form?

Sonnet

Ghazal

Villanelle

Haiku
25 Which of the following lines contains personification?

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane

I think I made you up inside my head

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

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