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?
Nature

Whiskey

Religion

Pollen
2 What does Dickinson compare a foxglove to?
A tavern

A harbor

A beehive

A tankard
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

One

Fifteen

Seven
4 What is the poem's meter?
Ballad metre

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic hexameter
5 What is the poem's tone?
Elated and freewheeling

Sober and serious

Harsh and comedic

Quiet and humble
6 What historical movement was Dickinson influenced by in the writing of this poem?
The Civil Rights Movement

The Reformation

Transcendentalism

The Temperance Movement
7 Who held the first Women's Temperance Convention?
Susan B. Anthony

Louisa May Alcott

Emily Dickinson

Mary Bowles
8 Where was this poem originally published?
The Springfield Republican

The Brooklyn Daily

The Boston Globe

The Concord Monitor
9 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Couplets

Quatrains

Sestets

Monostitches
10 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats –"

"Not all the Frankfort Berries"

"Reeling – thro' endless summer days –"

"I taste a liquor never brewed –"
11 What does the word "seraph" allude to in the poem?
A beacon of light

A wine glass

Biblical angels

A church window
12 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"Reeling – thro' endless summer days – From inns of molten Blue –"

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

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

"To see the little Tippler Leaning against the – Sun!"
13 What does "Foxglove" refer to?
A tavern door

A type of flower

A fox's paw

The roots of tree
14 What is the poem's setting?
A busy whaling port

A cabin in the dead of winter

An unnamed countryside during a summer day

A beehive
15 When was this poem published?
1955

1861

1891

1897
16 Who is the "little tippler" referenced in the fourth stanza?
The speaker

A butterfly

A dram of liquor

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

Commas

Periods

Semi-colons
18 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Butterflies

Oak trees

Bees

Liquor
19 Where is religious imagery introduced in the text?
In the first stanza

In the third stanza

In the second stanza

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

Slant rhyme

Rhyme royal

Unconventional capitalization
21 Which of the following is a religious symbol in the poem?
Drams

Saints

Foxgloves

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 Baptists

The Methodists

The Pentecostals

The Calvinists
24 What word best describes the poem's opening line?
Paradoxical

Cheerful

Elegiac

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

Inclement weather

War

Crime

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