Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1851

1841

1846

1856
2 When does the poem take place?
During spring

During autumn

During summer

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

Quatrains

Octaves

Sextets
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?
By a sea shore

At the top of green hills

Her lover's grave

On mountains
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?
Five

Fifteen

Two

Twelve
6 What does the speaker mean in the line "No later light has lightened up my heaven"?
That the winter is particularly brutal

That she has never felt as happy as she was when her lover was alive

That she has never found love again

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAB

ABBA

ABCB

Free verse
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Villanelle

Elegy

Acrostic

Pastoral
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?
Sunny

Dry

Mournful

Understated
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
Walt Whitman

Herman Melville

William Carlos Williams

Ralph Waldo Emerson
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"While the world's tide is bearing me along;"

"Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy."

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

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

Robert Lowell

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elizabeth Bishop
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A recently married bride

A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A priestess

A young mother
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five

Six

Nine

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

"All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given"

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"
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 time has lessened the weight of her grief

The demands the world has made on her life

The way the world has not given her a moment's rest
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Agnes Gray

Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Cristine and Clarissa

Anne and Charlotte

Elizabeth and Mary

Jane and Margaret
20 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Closure

Death

Time

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

A rose

A grave

A lightning bolt
22 What is the meaning of the word "rapturous" in the poem?
Dreary

Anxious

Enthusiastic

Dour
23 What is the speaker referencing in the line "Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers"?
The snowfall of that year

Her age

The coldest winter of her lifetime

The number of years her beloved has been dead
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Depressing

Uplifting

Ecstatic

Nervous
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?
Love

Marriage

Anxiety

Loss

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