Memory Green Quizzes

Memory Green Quiz

1 What kind of poet is Archibald MacLeish?
Transcendental

Victorian

Modernist

Romantic
2 How does Memory Green begin?
With a question

With a demand

With a wish

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 reader is implicated

The writer keeps his distance
4 Besides wind, what is the most frequently used image in Memory Green?
Teary eyes

Dying leaves

Empty streets

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

Nostalgia

Good health

Cheerfulness
6 The changing weather has what effect in Memory Green?
Evokes frustration about unpredictable weather

Evokes a religious fervor

Evokes time's effects on the mind

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 represent freedom

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

Content and peaceful

Invigorated and energized

Wistful and moved
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 places known to be windy

They are places of artistic expression

They are recognizable to modernist readers
10 Why does MacLeish use the future verb tense ("You will...")?
He wants every reader to believe him

Because the experience he describes is part of the human condition

He knows the person he is speaking about

He hopes to evoke a mystical quality
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 close your eyes: With whom, you will say, / Ah where?"

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

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

"Or you in Paris on the windy quay / Shuffle the shallow fallen leaves before you"
13 Why does "Memory Green" end on a question?
Because MacLeish wants to show how silly nostalgia is

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
14 What concept is mentioned in both Memory Green and Ars Poetica?
History

Grief

Memory

Language
15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born?
Illinois

England

California

Scotland
16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university?
Edinburgh

Cambridge

Yale

Harvard
17 What big event happened a few years after MacLeish married?
He served as Librarian of Congress

He wrote a famous screenplay

He won his first Pulitzer Prize

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

Columbia

Oxford

Harvard
19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession?
The day he met Ada Hitchcock

The day he joined the army

The day he made partner

The day he published his first book
20 What did MacLeish do in order to write Conquistador?
He studied fascism in Spain

He followed the route of Hemingway

He became an expatriate

He followed the route of Cortez' army
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 poem and a novel

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

money

celibacy

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

Ada Hitchcock

Elle Cummings

Ava Winthrop
24 Which war did MacLeish serve in?
Mexican-American War

WWII

WWI

Vietnam
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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