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