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 question

With a wish

With an affirmative statement

With a demand
3 What is the effect of the second person in Memory Green?

Nature is on our side

Time is personified

The writer keeps his distance

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

Teary eyes

Empty streets

Dark skies

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

Nostalgia

Excitement

Good health

Cheerfulness
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 overpower nature

The senses bring ecstatic joy
8 What do you think the speaker wants the reader to feel?

Wistful and moved

Invigorated and energized

Tickled and amused

Content and peaceful
9 What is the most important point of naming both Friedrichstrasse and the Parisian quay?

They are places of artistic expression

They are recognizable to modernist readers

They are places known to be windy

The ability to feel nostalgia is universal and goes beyond place
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 wants every reader to believe him

He knows the person he is speaking about
11 How is Memory Green similar to other MacLeish poems?

It helps the reader forget his troubles for a while

It has an underlying motive of environmental conservation

It touches on limitations of the human experience

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?

"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?"

"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 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

Memory

Grief

History
15 Where was Archibald MacLeish born?

California

Illinois

England

Scotland
16 Where did Archibald MacLeish attend university?

Yale

Edinburgh

Cambridge

Harvard
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?

Oxford

Harvard

Columbia

Yale
19 When did MacLeish leave the law profession?

The day he joined the army

The day he made partner

The day he met Ada Hitchcock

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

He studied fascism in Spain

He became an expatriate

He followed the route of Cortez' army

He followed the route of Hemingway
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?

money

humor

celibacy

time
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?

The subject of the poem has dementia

All tears are tears of grief

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

One can have a strong feeling and not know why

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