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 aftermath of an epidemic

The quiet of night

The death of a single loved one

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

An old woman recounting her first heartbreak to a younger one

A woman or girl suffering from heartbreak and possible madness

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

A novelist trying to come up with a dramatic love story
3 The phrases "lift my lids" and "sung me moon-struck" both contain which of the following?

Internal rhyme

Dramatic irony

Assonance

Allegory
4 What does the word "seraphim" mean?

A type of angel in several religious traditions

A flourish added to handwritten calligraphy

A mad but wise woman from Greek mythology

A type of pill once given to patients suffering from mental illness
5 Which of the following genres does the poem NOT contain allusions to?

Nineteenth-century cookbooks

The Bible

Native American mythology

Fairytales
6 What is the poem's point of view?

Third-person singular

Second-person plural and third-person singular

First-person and second-person singular

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

They imply that the speaker cannot integrate this thought with her other experiences

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

They show us that the speaker is whispering

They tell us that the speaker is trying to be casual and nonchalant
8 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Carefree

Uncertain

Regretful

Panicked
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 attempt to persuade her lover to return

The speaker's desire to get revenge on an ex-lover
10 What meter is the poem written in?

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic dimeter

Anapestic pentamater

Dactylic trimeter
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?

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

I fancied you'd return the way you said

Exit seraphim and Satan's men
13 Which line can most accurately be described as the poem's climax?

But I grow old and I forget your name

I lift my lids and all is born again

I should have loved a thunderbird instead

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade
14 What does the word "fancied" mean in the poem?

Loved

Dressed up

Pretended

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

The aging of a parent

A tornado

Secularization following World War I

The destruction of order
16 Which best describes the role of the word "bed" in the phrase "bewitched me into bed"?

Symbolism

Simile

Understatement

Metonymy
17 What does the thunderbird symbolize in the poem?

Insanity

Consistency

Freedom

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

Heartbreak

Control

Mental illness

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

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

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

The title makes us expect a happy love story, but the poem focuses on heartbreak
20 What is the name given to the poem's two repeating lines?

Repetitions

Choruses

Refrains

Themes
21 Why does the speaker shut her eyes?

To pretend she is sleeping and cannot see her lover

To fantasize about killing her lover

To endure the physical pain of electroshock therapy

To gain control over and distance from an overwhelming world
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 lives in a fantasy world

That the lover has a great deal of control and power over her

That the lover seduced her through magical means
23 What does the word "moon-struck" mean?

Close to death

Awed

Sleep-deprived

Lovesick
24 What is this poem's form?

Haiku

Sonnet

Ghazal

Villanelle
25 Which of the following lines contains personification?

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red

I think I made you up inside my head

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane

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