Memory Green Quizzes

Memory Green Quiz

1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish?

Romantic

Victorian

Modernist

Transcendental
2 How does Memory Green begin?

With a demand

With a wish

With a question

With an affirmative statement
3 What is the effect of the second person in Memory Green?

Time is personified

Nature is on our side

The writer keeps his distance

The reader is implicated
4 Besides wind, what is the most frequently used image in Memory Green?

Dying leaves

Empty streets

Teary eyes

Dark skies
5 What does the word "sweetness" refer to in Memory Green?

Cheerfulness

Nostalgia

Excitement

Good health
6 The changing weather has what effect in Memory Green?

Evokes frustration about unpredictable weather

Evokes time's effects on the mind

Evokes a religious fervor

Evokes fear about environmental change
7 Why does MacLeish reference the senses in Memory Green?

The senses trigger memories and emotion

The senses bring ecstatic joy

The senses overpower nature

The senses represent freedom
8 What do you think the speaker wants the reader to feel?

Tickled and amused

Wistful and moved

Content and peaceful

Invigorated and energized
9 What is the most important point of naming both Friedrichstrasse and the Parisian quay?

They are places known to be windy

The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place

They are places of artistic expression

They are recognizable to modernist readers
10 Why does MacLeish use the future verb tense ("You will...")?

He knows the person he is speaking about

He wants every reader to believe him

He hopes to evoke a mystical quality

Because the experience he describes is part of the human condition
11 How is Memory Green similar to other MacLeish poems?

It touches on limitations of the human experience

It has an underlying motive of environmental conservation

It helps the reader forget his troubles for a while

It makes the reader want to laugh with joy
12 When during the poem does the reader first become aware that MacLeish is referring to nostalgia?

"And the southwest wind that smells of rain and summer / Strips the huge branches of their dying leaves,"

"You will not understand why suddenly sweetness / Fills in your heart nor the tears come to your eyes:"

"Or you in Paris on the windy quay / Shuffle the shallow fallen leaves before you"

"You will close your eyes: With whom, you will say, / Ah where?"
13 Why does "Memory Green" end on a question?

Because MacLeish has mixed feelings about seasons

Because we will always try to remember what we cannot

Because MacLeish wants to show how silly nostalgia is

Because the speaker is asking the reader for answers
14 What concept is mentioned in both Memory Green and Ars Poetica?

Language

Grief

Memory

History
15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born?

Illinois

Scotland

California

England
16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university?

Cambridge

Edinburgh

Harvard

Yale
17 What big event happened a few years after MacLeish married?

He won his first Pulitzer Prize

He served as Librarian of Congress

He wrote a famous screenplay

He served in WWI
18 Where did MacLeish attend law school?

Harvard

Columbia

Oxford

Yale
19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession?

The day he published his first book

The day he made partner

The day he joined the army

The day he met Ada Hitchcock
20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador?

He became an expatriate

He followed the route of Hemingway

He followed the route of Cortez' army

He studied fascism in Spain
21 What are two main ties connecting MacLeish's life to the Roosevelt family?

a speech and an apology

a war and a play

a poem and a novel

a library and a screenplay
22 Based on his life and work, what was MacLeish obsessed with conceptually?

celibacy

money

time

humor
23 What was the name of MacLeish's wife?

Ava Winthrop

Elle Cummings

Amy Cortez

Ada Hitchcock
24 Which war did MacLeish serve in?

Vietnam

WWI

WWII

Mexican-American War
25 What do the tears in "Memory Green" indicate?

One can have a strong feeling and not know why

All tears are tears of grief

The subject of the poem has dementia

The constant wind is causing the subject's eyes to water

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