Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1851

1841

1856

1846
2 When does the poem take place?
During autumn

During spring

During winter

During summer
3 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Sextets

Couplets

Octaves

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

At the top of green hills

On mountains

Her lover's grave
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?
Twelve

Five

Fifteen

Two
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 lives in a region with cloudy weather

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

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

ABAB

ABCB

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

Pastoral

Acrostic

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

Dry

Mournful

Sunny
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
William Carlos Williams

Herman Melville

Walt Whitman

Ralph Waldo Emerson
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy."

"While the world's tide is bearing me along;"

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Deciding whether or not she will remarry
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Elizabeth Bishop

Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert Lowell
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A priestess

A young mother

A recently married bride

A woman who is grieving her dead lover
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Six

Nine

Eight

Five
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given"

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee"

"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 demands the world has made on her life

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

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

Jane Eyre

Agnes Gray

Wuthering Heights
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Cristine and Clarissa

Elizabeth and Mary

Anne and Charlotte

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

Time

Closure

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

A grave

A lightning bolt

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

Dreary

Dour

Enthusiastic
23 What is the speaker referencing in the line "Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers"?
The coldest winter of her lifetime

The snowfall of that year

The number of years her beloved has been dead

Her age
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Ecstatic

Depressing

Uplifting

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

Marriage

Anxiety

Love

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