Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1851

1846

1856

1841
2 When does the poem take place?

During winter

During autumn

During summer

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

Quatrains

Octaves

Couplets

Sextets
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?

On mountains

Her lover's grave

By a sea shore

At the top of green hills
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?

Five

Two

Fifteen

Twelve
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 she has never found love again

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather

That the winter is particularly brutal
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABCB

ABAB

ABBA

Free verse
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Elegy

Acrostic

Villanelle

Pastoral
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Mournful

Dry

Sunny

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

William Carlos Williams

Walt Whitman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

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

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

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

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?

Robert Lowell

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elizabeth Bishop

Henry David Thoreau
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?

A recently married bride

A young mother

A priestess

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

Eight

Nine

Six

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"?

The demands the world has made on her life

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
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?

Agnes Gray

Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Middlemarch
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Jane and Margaret

Anne and Charlotte

Cristine and Clarissa

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

Death

Marriage

Time

Closure
21 Which of the following is a symbol in the poem?

A rose

A lightning bolt

A grave

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

Dreary

Anxious

Dour

Enthusiastic
23 What is the speaker referencing in the line "Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers"?

Her age

The coldest winter of her lifetime

The number of years her beloved has been dead

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

Uplifting

Ecstatic

Nervous

Depressing
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?

Anxiety

Loss

Marriage

Love

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