Remembrance Quizzes

Remembrance Quiz

1 When was the poem published?

1851

1856

1846

1841
2 When does the poem take place?

During summer

During autumn

During spring

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

Couplets

Quatrains

Sextets

Octaves
4 Where is the speaker standing at the beginning?

Her lover's grave

On mountains

At the top of green hills

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

Two

Five

Twelve

Fifteen
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

ABBA

ABAB

Free verse
8 What is the genre of the poem?

Acrostic

Elegy

Pastoral

Villanelle
9 What best describes the tone of the poem?

Mournful

Sunny

Dry

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Carlos Williams

Walt Whitman

Herman Melville
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?

Deciding whether or not she will remarry

Overcoming a lengthy illness

Making an arduous trek across the mountain

Moving on from the memory of her dead lover
13 Who wrote the poem "For the Union Dead"?

Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Lowell

Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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?

Five

Eight

Nine

Six
16 What line underscores the pain the speaker experiences in remembering?

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

"Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain"

"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 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
18 What novel is Brontë well-known for writing?

Wuthering Heights

Agnes Gray

Jane Eyre

Middlemarch
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?

Closure

Time

Death

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

A golden ring

A grave

A lightning bolt

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

Anxious

Enthusiastic

Dreary

Dour
23 What is the speaker referencing in the line "Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers"?

Her age

The coldest winter of her lifetime

The number of years her beloved has been dead

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

Nervous

Ecstatic

Depressing

Uplifting
25 What is the antagonizing force in the poem?

Marriage

Anxiety

Love

Loss

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