Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1856

1851

1841
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

Octaves

Sextets

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

Fifteen

Five

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 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?
ABCB

ABAB

Free verse

ABBA
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Elegy

Pastoral

Acrostic

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

Mournful

Understated

Dry
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
Herman Melville

Walt Whitman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Carlos Williams
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

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

"Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy."
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Overcoming a lengthy illness

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry David Thoreau

Elizabeth Bishop
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A young mother

A priestess

A recently married bride

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

Eight

Five

Six
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

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

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

"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

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
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch

Agnes Gray

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

Jane and Margaret

Elizabeth and Mary

Cristine and Clarissa
20 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Time

Marriage

Closure

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

A grave

A rose

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

Dour

Dreary

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

The coldest winter of her lifetime

The number of years her beloved has been dead

Her age
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?
Marriage

Love

Loss

Anxiety

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