Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1851

1846

1856

1841
2 When does the poem take place?
During summer

During winter

During spring

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Octaves
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?
On mountains

At the top of green hills

Her lover's grave

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

Twelve

Five

Fifteen
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 found love again

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

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

ABBA

Free verse

ABCB
8 What is the genre of the poem?
Acrostic

Villanelle

Pastoral

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

Understated

Dry

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

William Carlos Williams

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

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

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

"Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy."
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"?
Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Lowell

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry David Thoreau
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A recently married bride

A priestess

A young mother
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Nine

Five

Eight

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

"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"
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 time has lessened the weight of her grief

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

How time has passed quickly in for her
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre

Middlemarch

Agnes Gray
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Elizabeth and Mary

Cristine and Clarissa

Anne and Charlotte

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

Death

Closure

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

A golden ring

A rose

A lightning bolt
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 number of years her beloved has been dead

Her age

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

Uplifting

Nervous

Depressing
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?
Anxiety

Loss

Love

Marriage

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