A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A blade of grass

A bird

A rowboat

A worm
2 What kind of stanzas does the poem contain?
Sextets

Quatrains

Octaves

Monostiches
3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem?
Unusual text alignment

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme

Dashes
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?
Cautious and curious

Whimsical and bright

Plucky and determined

Depressed and somber
5 How many stanzas does the poem have
Two

Five

Ten

Seven
6 When was the poem published?
1861

1918

1898

1891
7 What is the setting of the poem?
A frozen lake

The Maine woods

Cape Cod

The countryside, likely a grassy field
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
Seeds

A worm

A beetle

A butterfly
9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird?
Flying home

Drinking dew from a blade of grass

Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Staring at her
10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from?
Gardening

Tailoring

Seafaring

Capentry
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"

"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"I offered him a Crumb,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To indicate enjambment

To indicate repetition and interjection

To substitute for periods

To replace semicolons
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The rewriting of a family narrative

The retelling of a ghost story

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The recreation of a crime scene
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of trochaic octameter

Lines of iambic pentameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?
Noble

Too complex to categorize

Dull

Murderous
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
The ocean

A rowboat and butterflies

A snake

The sun and a swarm of bees
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees

When the speaker offers the bird a crumb and it takes flight

When the bird drinks dew

When the bird consumes the worm
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A ruler

A worm used for bait fishing

A worm found only on sandy beaches

A protractor
19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem?
The bird's graceful flight home

The bird's rapidly moving eyes

The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm

The speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb
20 What is a major theme in the poem?
The unknowability of nature

The dangers of the ocean

The pain of unrequited love

The curiosity of children
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Butterflies

A rowboat

The worm

A whale
22 Which pair of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?
"Grass" and "pass"

"Saw" and "raw"

"Walk" and "halves"

"Seam" and "swim"
23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work?
Shift the meaning of individual words

Alter the rhyme scheme

Reference other poets

Segment individual images
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding

The speaker's desire to be free

The dangers of the natural world

The difficulty of returning home
25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work?
Elizabeth Bishop

Edgar Allan Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Walt Whitman

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