Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1856

1841

1846

1851
2 When does the poem take place?

During spring

During winter

During summer

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Sextets

Octaves
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?

At the top of green hills

By a sea shore

On mountains

Her lover's grave
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 has never felt as happy as she was when her lover was alive

That she lives in a region with cloudy weather

That she has never found love again

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

ABAB

ABBA

ABCB

Free verse
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Acrostic

Pastoral

Elegy

Villanelle
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Understated

Sunny

Mournful

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville

William Carlos Williams

Walt Whitman
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

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

"Other desires and other hopes beset me,"

"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?

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Deciding whether or not she will remarry
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?

Elizabeth Bishop

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry David Thoreau

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?

Eight

Six

Five

Nine
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"

"Down to that tomb already more than mine"

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

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

Agnes Gray

Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch
19 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Elizabeth and Mary

Cristine and Clarissa

Jane and Margaret

Anne and Charlotte
20 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?

Closure

Time

Death

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

A grave

A golden ring

A lightning bolt

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

Dour

Enthusiastic

Anxious

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 number of years her beloved has been dead

The snowfall of that year

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

Nervous

Depressing

Uplifting

Ecstatic
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?

Loss

Anxiety

Love

Marriage

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