The Widow’s Lament in Springtime Quizzes

The Widow's Lament in Springtime Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1931

1921

1964

1912
2 How long is the poem?
32 lines

15 lines

29 lines

25 lines
3 What is the main theme of the poem?
Natural beauty

Loss

Coping

Rebirth
4 Where is the poem set?
In a field of flowers

In the speaker's backyard

In a meadow

In a forest
5 Who is the speaker?
A plum tree

A dying man

A recently widowed woman

A man who has lost his father
6 Why does springtime make the speaker feel sadness?
Because she prefers autumn

Because she didn't have time to plant her garden

Because she gets terrible allergies

Because it reminds her of her husband
7 What is the tone of the poem?
Dull and monotone

Upbeat and cheery

Cynical and sarcastic

Mournful and elegiac
8 Which of the following is NOT an image in the poem?
Plum tree

White flowers

An apple orchard

Grass
9 What is the poem's form?
Sonnet

Haiku

Rhyme royal

Free verse
10 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"The plumtree is white today"

"I lived with my husband."

"flames as it has flamed"

"at the edge of the heavy woods"
11 Which movement was Williams associated with?
Imagism

Impressionism

Surrealism

Romanticism
12 What is the poem's genre?
Ekphrastic poetry

Nature poetry

War epic

Love sonnet
13 When does the climax occur?
When the speaker imagines collapsing into white flowers

When the speaker sees the blossoming tree in her yard

When the speaker talks to to her son

When the speaker remembers her husband
14 In "The morns are meeker than they were," what season did Emily Dickinson recontextualize?
Autumn

Spring

Winter

Summer
15 Which of the following lines contains foreshadowing?
"Sorrow is my own yard"

"and fall into those flowers"

"The plumtree is white today"

"load the cherry branches"
16 Which season is William Shakespeare reframing in Sonnet 98?
Autumn

Spring

Summer

Winter
17 Which technique does Williams use throughout the poem?
Extended metaphor

Anaphora

Unconventional capitalization

Enjambment
18 Which theatrical construct is the poem trying to imitate?
Monologue

Stichomythia

Chorus

Soliloquy
19 What do the white flowers at the end of the poem symbolize?
The speaker's acceptance of circumstance

The memories of the speaker's happy marriage

The grace of nature

The speaker's grief
20 Why does Williams choose to set a poem about death in springtime?
To parallel spring with winter

To show how spring is falsely framed in Victorian poetry

To show spring's hidden sadness

To show how loss changes the meaning of images and events
21 What was Williams's style typically characterized as?
Dense

Direct

Indulgent

Flowery
22 How long was the speaker married?
Fifteen years

Five years

Thirty-five years

Twenty-five years
23 Who told the speaker about the white flowers in the meadow?
The speaker's son

The speaker's mother

The speaker's husband

The speaker's neighbor
24 What does the speaker imagine doing at the end of the poem?
Chopping down her plum tree

Going to a meadow with her husband

Falling into a soft bed of white flowers

Mowing the lawn
25 What does the word "marsh" mean?
The shore of a beach

A preserve for birdwatching

A swamp with alligators

A muddy wetland

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