Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Remembrance, Exam Based Questions

Sir Thomas Wyatt’s

Remembrance

1. “With naked foot stalking in my chamber” — what does the phrase “naked foot” suggest? (PGTRB)

A) The speaker's poverty

B) The speaker's humility

C) The speaker's vulnerability

D) The speaker's sensuality

Ans: C) The speaker's vulnerability

2. Who is the poem “Remembrance” attributed to? (PGTRB)

A) Sir Thomas Wyatt

B) William Shakespeare

C) John Donne

D) Edmund Spenser

Ans: A) Sir Thomas Wyatt

3. Wyatt's poem is often interpreted as autobiographical because: (PGTRB)

A) He directly names people

B) It mirrors courtly relationships from his life

C) He addresses political events

D) It includes dates and letters

Ans: B) It mirrors courtly relationships from his life

4. The deer/hart metaphor in the first stanza implies: (PGTRB)

A) War

B) Escape from justice

C) Lovers fleeing from the hunter

D) Nature worship

Ans: C) Lovers fleeing from the hunter

5. “Bread at my hand” uses a metaphor of: (PGTRB)

A) Nourishment and care

B) Punishment

C) Work

D) Wealth

Ans: A) Nourishment and care

6. The memory of intimacy is both: (PGTRB)

A) Sacred and religious

B) Distant and vague

C) Real and emotionally painful

D) Violent and controlling

Ans: C) Real and emotionally painful

7. In context, “caught” suggests the woman: (PGTRB)

A) Tricked the speaker

B) Attacked him

C) Embraced him willingly

D) Was arrested

Ans: C) Embraced him willingly

8. The shift from past affection to present rejection creates: (PGTRB)

A) Joy

B) Conflict and irony

C) Political commentary

D) Religious contrast

Ans: B) Conflict and irony

9. The poem’s ending suggests that the speaker: (Practice Set)

A) Finds peace

B) Remains in sorrow

C) Forgets the past

D) Gains strength

Ans: B) Remains in sorrow

10. The use of the phrase “call to mind” repeated throughout the poem shows: (Practice Set)

A) The speaker’s deliberate forgetting

B) Obsession with memory

C) Confusion

D) Acceptance

Ans: B) Obsession with memory

11. Wyatt’s Remembrance primarily expresses: (Practice Set)

A) The joy of love

B) The pain of unfulfilled love

C) Political satire

D) Religious devotion

Ans: B) The pain of unfulfilled love

12. The speaker’s tone can best be described as: (Practice Set)

A) Playful

B) Melancholic

C) Indifferent

D) Angry

Ans: B) Melancholic