Memory Green Quizzes

Memory Green Quiz

1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish?
Romantic

Modernist

Transcendental

Victorian
2 How does Memory Green begin?
With a question

With an affirmative statement

With a demand

With a wish
3 What is the effect of the second person in Memory Green?
Nature is on our side

The reader is implicated

The writer keeps his distance

Time is personified
4 Besides wind, what is the most frequently used image in Memory Green?
Dark skies

Teary eyes

Empty streets

Dying leaves
5 What does the word "sweetness" refer to in Memory Green?
Nostalgia

Excitement

Cheerfulness

Good health
6 The changing weather has what effect in Memory Green?
Evokes fear about environmental change

Evokes a religious fervor

Evokes time's effects on the mind

Evokes frustration about unpredictable weather
7 Why does MacLeish reference the senses in Memory Green?
The senses trigger memories and emotion

The senses represent freedom

The senses bring ecstatic joy

The senses overpower nature
8 What do you think the speaker wants the reader to feel?
Wistful and moved

Invigorated and energized

Content and peaceful

Tickled and amused
9 What is the most important point of naming both Friedrichstrasse and the Parisian quay?
The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place

They are recognizable to modernist readers

They are places known to be windy

They are places of artistic expression
10 Why does MacLeish use the future verb tense ("You will...")?
He hopes to evoke a mystical quality

Because the experience he describes is part of the human condition

He knows the person he is speaking about

He wants every reader to believe him
11 How is Memory Green similar to other MacLeish poems?
It touches on limitations of the human experience

It makes the reader want to laugh with joy

It helps the reader forget his troubles for a while

It has an underlying motive of environmental conservation
12 When during the poem does the reader first become aware that MacLeish is referring to nostalgia?
"You will not understand why suddenly sweetness / Fills in your heart nor the tears come to your eyes:"

"You will close your eyes: With whom, you will say, / Ah where?"

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

"And the southwest wind that smells of rain and summer / Strips the huge branches of their dying leaves,"
13 Why does "Memory Green" end on a question?
Because we will always try to remember what we cannot

Because the speaker is asking the reader for answers

Because MacLeish has mixed feelings about seasons

Because MacLeish wants to show how silly nostalgia is
14 What concept is mentioned in both Memory Green and Ars Poetica?
Grief

Memory

History

Language
15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born?
Illinois

Scotland

California

England
16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university?
Yale

Harvard

Edinburgh

Cambridge
17 What big event happened a few years after MacLeish married?
He served in WWI

He served as Librarian of Congress

He wrote a famous screenplay

He won his first Pulitzer Prize
18 Where did MacLeish attend law school?
Yale

Harvard

Oxford

Columbia
19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession?
The day he joined the army

The day he published his first book

The day he met Ada Hitchcock

The day he made partner
20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador?
He followed the route of Hemingway

He studied fascism in Spain

He followed the route of Cortez' army

He became an expatriate
21 What are two main ties connecting MacLeish's life to the Roosevelt family?
a war and a play

a speech and an apology

a library and a screenplay

a poem and a novel
22 Based on his life and work, what was MacLeish obsessed with conceptually?
time

money

humor

celibacy
23 What was the name of MacLeish's wife?
Ava Winthrop

Ada Hitchcock

Elle Cummings

Amy Cortez
24 Which war did MacLeish serve in?
WWII

Mexican-American War

WWI

Vietnam
25 What do the tears in "Memory Green" indicate?
All tears are tears of grief

The subject of the poem has dementia

One can have a strong feeling and not know why

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

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