A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1848

1892

1905
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
May and December

January and February

May and June

Summer and autumn
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCB

ABBC

ABAB

ABBA
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Octaves

Couplets

Quatrains

Sestets
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A dark evening in a forest

A beautiful summer day in nature

A lunar eclipse

A rainy day by a lake
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"To greet the general glow."

"Is on the surface seen!"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti

Emily Brontë

George Eliot
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?
Lilacs

Roses

Heather

Daffodils
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
A lake

Gray rocks

The rising sun

Singing birds
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Four

Eighteen

Eleven

Nine
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

Elizabeth poetry

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Lydia

Cordelia and Rosalind

Mary and Elizabeth
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Villette

Little Women

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
William Wordsworth

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Fall

Winter

Summer

Spring
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
May's father

The birds

A celestial being

June
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A seaside jetty

A steep bank

A mountain peak

A forest
18 How many voices does the poem have?
One

Six

Three

Two
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Slow and dolorous

Cold but humorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Bright and hurried
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the sun sets

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When May marries June
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day

Gardening in her backyard
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the beginning of autumn

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the marriage of May and June

With the end of the day
23 Where was Brontë born?
Thorton

Liverpool

Dorset

Manchester
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
A pile of rocks

Flowers

Trees

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Writing poetry

Looking for birds

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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