A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

By John Melendez · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed June 18, 2022

1 When was the poem published?

1846

1905

1848

1892
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

Summer and autumn

January and February

May and June

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

ABBA

ABCB

ABBC

ABAB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Quatrains

Sestets

Octaves

Couplets
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake

A dark evening in a forest

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?

"Is on the surface seen!"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"To greet the general glow."

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?

Emily Brontë

Christina Rossetti

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?

Heather

Lilacs

Daffodils

Roses
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?

Singing birds

A lake

Gray rocks

The rising sun
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Eighteen

Four

Nine

Eleven
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Victorian poetry

Love sonnet

Pastoral verse

Elizabeth poetry
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?

Anne and Charlotte

Mary and Elizabeth

Cordelia and Rosalind

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

Little Women

Villette

Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anne Brontë

Christina Rossetti

William Wordsworth
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?

Summer

Spring

Winter

Fall
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?

May's father

A celestial being

June

The birds
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?

A steep bank

A mountain peak

A forest

A seaside jetty
18 How many voices does the poem have?

One

Two

Six

Three
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?

Cold but humorous

Slow and dolorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Bright and hurried
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When the sun sets

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

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

Gardening in her backyard

The first snow of winter

Swimming in the ocean

A beautiful summer day
22 How does the poem conclude?

With the end of the day

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the marriage of May and June

With the beginning of autumn
23 Where was Brontë born?

Manchester

Thorton

Liverpool

Dorset
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?

Birds

Trees

A pile of rocks

Flowers
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Writing poetry

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Looking for birds

Thinking of winter

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