A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1905

1892

1848

1846
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
May and June

January and February

Summer and autumn

May and December
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA

ABBC

ABAB

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

Couplets

Sestets

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

A rainy day by a lake

A beautiful summer day in nature

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

"To greet the general glow."
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Christina Rossetti

Emily Dickinson

Emily Brontë

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

Heather

Roses

Lilacs
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
The rising sun

A lake

Gray rocks

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

Nine

Four

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

Elizabeth poetry

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Cordelia and Rosalind

Mary and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

Jane and Lydia
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Villette

Little Women

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë

Gerard Manley Hopkins
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Summer

Winter

Fall

Spring
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
The birds

A celestial being

May's father

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

A mountain peak

A forest

A steep bank
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Two

Six

One

Three
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Lyrical but melancholy

Bright and hurried

Cold but humorous

Slow and dolorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the sun sets

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When May marries June

When the speaker has an internal discussion
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Swimming in the ocean

Gardening in her backyard

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the beginning of autumn

With the end of the day

With the marriage of May and June

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine
23 Where was Brontë born?
Manchester

Thorton

Dorset

Liverpool
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
Flowers

Trees

A pile of rocks

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Thinking of winter

Writing poetry

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Looking for birds

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