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 tankard

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

One

Seven

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

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
5 What is the poem's tone?
Sober and serious

Elated and freewheeling

Quiet and humble

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

The Reformation

Transcendentalism

The Civil Rights Movement
7 Who held the first Women's Temperance Convention?
Emily Dickinson

Mary Bowles

Susan B. Anthony

Louisa May Alcott
8 Where was this poem originally published?
The Springfield Republican

The Concord Monitor

The Boston Globe

The Brooklyn Daily
9 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Monostitches

Couplets

Sestets

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

"I taste a liquor never brewed –"

"Not all the Frankfort Berries"

"Reeling – thro' endless summer days –"
11 What does the word "seraph" allude to in the poem?
A church window

A wine glass

Biblical angels

A beacon of light
12 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"I taste a liquor never brewed – / From Tankards scooped in Pearl –"

"Reeling – thro' endless summer days – From inns of molten Blue –"

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

"To see the little Tippler Leaning against the – Sun!"
13 What does "Foxglove" refer to?
A fox's paw

A type of flower

The roots of tree

A tavern door
14 What is the poem's setting?
An unnamed countryside during a summer day

A busy whaling port

A beehive

A cabin in the dead of winter
15 When was this poem published?
1861

1891

1955

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

A bee

A butterfly

A dram of liquor
17 What punctuation in the poem effectively conveys its tone?
Exclamation points

Periods

Commas

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

Bees

Oak trees

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

In the first stanza

In the second stanza

In the fourth stanza
20 Which of the following is NOT one of Dickinson's idiosyncrasies?
Unconventional capitalization

Frequent use of dashes

Slant rhyme

Rhyme royal
21 Which of the following is a religious symbol in the poem?
Foxgloves

Saints

Tankards

Drams
22 What is the poem's central theme?
The fear of getting lost in the woods

The overwhelming effect of nature's beauty

The elegance of butterflies

The dangers of alcohol
23 What religious sect took the most active role in the temperance movement?
The Calvinists

The Baptists

The Pentecostals

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

Inquisitive

Elegiac

Paradoxical
25 What did proponents of the temperance movement believe alcohol caused?
Inclement weather

Famine

Crime

War

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