I taste a liquor never brewed Quizzes

I taste a liquor never brewed Quiz

1 What is the "liquor never brewed" to which the speaker refers?
Pollen

Nature

Whiskey

Religion
2 What does Dickinson compare a foxglove to?
A harbor

A tavern

A tankard

A beehive
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Fifteen

Four

Seven

One
4 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic hexameter

Ballad metre

Iambic pentameter
5 What is the poem's tone?
Quiet and humble

Harsh and comedic

Sober and serious

Elated and freewheeling
6 What historical movement was Dickinson influenced by in the writing of this poem?
The Temperance Movement

The Reformation

The Civil Rights Movement

Transcendentalism
7 Who held the first Women's Temperance Convention?
Louisa May Alcott

Mary Bowles

Emily Dickinson

Susan B. Anthony
8 Where was this poem originally published?
The Springfield Republican

The Concord Monitor

The Brooklyn Daily

The Boston Globe
9 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Sestets

Quatrains

Couplets

Monostitches
10 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Reeling – thro' endless summer days –"

"Not all the Frankfort Berries"

"I taste a liquor never brewed –"

"Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats –"
11 What does the word "seraph" allude to in the poem?
A wine glass

A beacon of light

Biblical angels

A church window
12 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"To see the little Tippler Leaning against the – Sun!"

"When 'Landlords' turn the drunken Bee / Out of the Foxglove's door –"

"I taste a liquor never brewed – / From Tankards scooped in Pearl –"

"Reeling – thro' endless summer days – From inns of molten Blue –"
13 What does "Foxglove" refer to?
A fox's paw

A type of flower

A tavern door

The roots of tree
14 What is the poem's setting?
A cabin in the dead of winter

A busy whaling port

A beehive

An unnamed countryside during a summer day
15 When was this poem published?
1955

1891

1897

1861
16 Who is the "little tippler" referenced in the fourth stanza?
A dram of liquor

The speaker

A bee

A butterfly
17 What punctuation in the poem effectively conveys its tone?
Exclamation points

Semi-colons

Commas

Periods
18 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Bees

Oak trees

Liquor

Butterflies
19 Where is religious imagery introduced in the text?
In the second stanza

In the first stanza

In the fourth stanza

In the third stanza
20 Which of the following is NOT one of Dickinson's idiosyncrasies?
Frequent use of dashes

Rhyme royal

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme
21 Which of the following is a religious symbol in the poem?
Foxgloves

Saints

Drams

Tankards
22 What is the poem's central theme?
The overwhelming effect of nature's beauty

The elegance of butterflies

The dangers of alcohol

The fear of getting lost in the woods
23 What religious sect took the most active role in the temperance movement?
The Pentecostals

The Baptists

The Calvinists

The Methodists
24 What word best describes the poem's opening line?
Inquisitive

Cheerful

Paradoxical

Elegiac
25 What did proponents of the temperance movement believe alcohol caused?
Famine

War

Crime

Inclement weather

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