Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1856

1846

1851

1841
2 When does the poem take place?
During summer

During spring

During autumn

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

Octaves

Couplets

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

On mountains

By a sea shore

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

Fifteen

Two

Five
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?
ABBA

ABCB

ABAB

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

Pastoral

Elegy

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

Mournful

Dry

Sunny
10 Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
William Carlos Williams

Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,"

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

"While the world's tide is bearing me along;"
12 What is the speaker struggling with in the poem?
Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Overcoming a lengthy illness
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?
Henry David Thoreau

Robert Lowell

Elizabeth Bishop

Nathaniel Hawthorne
14 Who is the speaker of the poem?
A woman who is grieving her dead lover

A young mother

A recently married bride

A priestess
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Six

Nine

Five

Eight
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?
"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"

"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"
17 What does the speaker refer to when she says "While the world's tide is bearing me along"?
The way time has lessened the weight of her grief

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
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?
Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

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

Closure

Death

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

A lightning bolt

A rose

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

Anxious

Enthusiastic

Dour
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

The number of years her beloved has been dead

Her age
24 What is the meaning of the word "dreary" in the poem?
Nervous

Depressing

Ecstatic

Uplifting
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?
Loss

Love

Marriage

Anxiety

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