1 Which book did this poem first appear in? The Tower Cathleen Ní Houlihan The Rose A Book of Irish Verse 2 What does "glad" most closely mean in this work's context? Pleasing Happy Soft Comfortable 3 What is the poem's meter? Dactylic Pentameter Free Verse Iambic Tetrameter Iambic pentameter 4 Which real-life figure was the poem likely addressed to? Teresa Deevy Maud Gonne Georgiana Hyde-Lees James Joyce 5 Which best describes the relationship between the speaker and the addressee? Lost love Baseless hatred Political solidarity Familial obligation 6 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia? Grace Crowd Shadows Murmur 7 Which does NOT describe the poem's tone? Regretful Zealous Melancholy Bitter 8 How does the speaker characterize his own love as distinct? He explains that he has loved the addressee for longer than anyone else He insists that his love is a mystical, almost magic force He implies that he loves the addressee for non-superficial reasons He argues that he actually wants to help the addressee rather than just admire her 9 The poem's contrast between the home and the wilderness is an instance of which of the following? Juxtaposition Personification Parallelism Hyperbole 10 Which best describes the poem's setting? A house in twentieth-century Ireland An abandoned castle in Europe A Victorian Dublin schoolyard A magical realm 11 How many stanzas are in this poem? Four Five Three One 12 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABBA ABAB ABC AABB 13 Which line features alliterative G sounds? Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled How many loved your moments of glad grace When you are old and grey and full of sleep But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you 14 Which emotion is personified in this poem? Regret Love Fury Sadness 15 Which of the following is true of Maud Gonne? She was American She was an Irish revolutionary She was opposed to Yeats's radical politics She was best known as a painter 16 Which of the following is true of this poem? Its primary theme is the nature of consciousness It is a direct commentary on Irish independence It is written in the second person It is written from the point of view of an inanimate object 17 Which is a conflict in the poem? The fight between Irish revolutionaries and the British government The dislike between the speaker and the woman he is engaged to The disagreement between a young woman and her parents The tension between youthful passion and the jadedness of age 18 Who is the poem's speaker? An unidentified man, most likely a version of Yeats himself A house remembering everything that has happened within its walls An old man looking back at his youth A young woman looking forward to old age 19 Which of the following is true of this poem and the way it engages with time? It mostly takes place in a hypothetical, imagined future It is about time travel to Ireland's past It takes place over a series of flashbacks It describes a person who cannot distinguish the past from the future 20 Which of the following themes does this poem engage with most? Motherhood Nature and its destruction Aging and time Music and art 21 This poem is based on an earlier work by whom? Petrarch Christina Rosetti Seamus Heaney Pierre de Ronsard 22 How is the addressee characterized by the speaker? As a likable but cruel schemer As a person so repressed by the norms of her time that she has no real personality As superficially charming, but full of hidden depths As a kind person whose anger disguises her good intentions 23 What types of stanzas are in the poem? Couplets Tercets Quatrains Octaves 24 The phrase "when you are old and grey" contains which of the following? Simile End rhyme Metonymy Allusion 25 Which of the following is one meaning of the word "pilgrim"? A gifted student A traveler to a religious site Romantic and softhearted Sickly