Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1851

1856

1841

1846
2 When does the poem take place?

During winter

During summer

During spring

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

Octaves

Sextets

Quatrains

Couplets
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?

Her lover's grave

At the top of green hills

On mountains

By a sea shore
5 How many years have passed since the speaker's lover died?

Two

Five

Fifteen

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 found love again

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather

That she has never felt as happy as she was when her lover was alive
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

Free verse

ABAB

ABBA

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Acrostic

Villanelle

Pastoral

Elegy
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Dry

Understated

Sunny

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

Walt Whitman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Carlos Williams

Herman Melville
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?

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Overcoming a lengthy illness

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A priestess

A young mother

A recently married bride
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 way the world has not given her a moment's rest

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
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Gray

Middlemarch

Jane Eyre
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Cristine and Clarissa

Jane and Margaret

Anne and Charlotte

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

Closure

Time

Marriage

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

A grave

A rose

A lightning bolt

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

Dour

Anxious

Dreary

Enthusiastic
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

Her age

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

Ecstatic

Depressing

Nervous

Uplifting
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?

Love

Loss

Marriage

Anxiety

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