Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1851

1846

1841

1856
2 When does the poem take place?
During winter

During spring

During autumn

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

Quatrains

Sextets

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

By a sea shore

On mountains

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

Twelve

Fifteen

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

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

ABCB

ABBA

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

Villanelle

Acrostic

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

Understated

Dry

Sunny
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?
"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?
Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Making an arduous trek across the mountain
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry David Thoreau

Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Lowell
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A recently married bride

A priestess

A young mother

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

Nine

Six

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

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"

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

The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

How time has passed quickly in for her

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

Agnes Gray

Middlemarch

Jane Eyre
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?
Death

Time

Marriage

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

A rose

A golden ring

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

Enthusiastic

Dour

Dreary
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

Her age

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

Uplifting

Depressing

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

Loss

Anxiety

Marriage

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