A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1892

1846

1848

1905
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
January and February

May and December

May and June

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

ABAB

ABCB

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

Couplets

Octaves

Quatrains
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A rainy day by a lake

A dark evening in a forest

A beautiful summer day in nature

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"Is on the surface seen!"

"To greet the general glow."

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

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

Emily Brontë

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson
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?
A lake

The rising sun

Gray rocks

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

Four

Eleven

Nine
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral verse

Elizabeth poetry

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Jane and Lydia

Anne and Charlotte

Mary and Elizabeth

Cordelia and Rosalind
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Middlemarch

Wuthering Heights

Little Women

Villette
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Christina Rossetti

William Wordsworth

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

Spring

Fall

Summer
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
A celestial being

June

May's father

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

A mountain peak

A seaside jetty

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

Two

Six

Three
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Bright and hurried

Cold but humorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Slow and dolorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the sun sets

When May marries June
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
A beautiful summer day

Swimming in the ocean

Gardening in her backyard

The first snow of winter
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?
Trees

Flowers

A pile of rocks

Birds
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Looking for birds

Writing poetry

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Thinking of winter

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