Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1856

1846

1841

1851
2 When does the poem take place?
During winter

During summer

During autumn

During spring
3 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Couplets

Quatrains

Sextets

Octaves
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?
Her lover's grave

At the top of green hills

On mountains

By a sea shore
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?
Twelve

Five

Two

Fifteen
6 What does the speaker mean in the line "No later light has lightened up my heaven"?
That she has never felt as happy as she was when her lover was alive

That the winter is particularly brutal

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather

That she has never found love again
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
Free verse

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral

Acrostic

Elegy

Villanelle
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Mournful

Sunny

Understated

Dry
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville

William Carlos Williams

Walt Whitman
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy."

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

"While the world's tide is bearing me along;"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Overcoming a lengthy illness
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Henry David Thoreau

Elizabeth Bishop

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert Lowell
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A priestess

A young mother

A recently married bride
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five

Eight

Nine

Six
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee"

"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given"
17 What does the speaker refer to when she says "While the world's tide is bearing me along"?
How time has passed quickly in for her

The way the world has not given her a moment's rest

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

The demands the world has made on her life
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Agnes Gray

Jane Eyre

Middlemarch
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Margaret

Cristine and Clarissa

Elizabeth and Mary
20 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Time

Closure

Death

Marriage
21 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?
A grave

A lightning bolt

A rose

A golden ring
22 What is the meaning of the word "rapturous" in the poem?
Anxious

Dour

Enthusiastic

Dreary
23 What is the speaker referencing in the line "Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers"?
The number of years her beloved has been dead

The coldest winter of her lifetime

Her age

The snowfall of that year
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Ecstatic

Uplifting

Nervous

Depressing
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?
Anxiety

Love

Marriage

Loss

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