Nothing Gold Can Stay Quizzes

Nothing Gold Can Stay Quiz

1 Who is the speaker of this poem?

The Garden of Eden

An unnamed third-person narrator

Nature

An unnamed first-person narrator
2 Where is this poem set?

Eden

New Hampshire

Boston

This poem has no specific setting
3 Eden in this poem represents darkness, turning the image's usual meaning on its head.

True

False
4 Consonance is used in this poem.

True

False
5 Nature in this poem is personified as female.

True

False
6 What does gold symbolize in this poem?

Monetary value

Youth, beauty, and goodness

Tenderness and care

Sunlight
7 Eden is personified in this poem as a woman.

False

True
8 This poem uses an "AABB" rhyme scheme.

True

False
9 This poem uses rhyming couplets

False

True
10 The title of this poem is misleading.

False

True
11 Which of the following most closely describes the speaker's tone?

Passionate and inspired

Hopeful and trepidatious

Neutral and slightly sorrowful

Distraught and mournful
12 The speaker is unnamed.

True

False
13 How many syllables does each line contain?

Each line contains six syllables except for the last, which contains five

The lines alternately contain six and eight syllables

The lines alternately contain eight and ten syllables

Each line contains five syllables except for the last, which contains six
14 This poem is a sonnet.

False

True
15 What does "an hour" represent in this poem?

A fleeting and unspecified amount of time

It does not represent anything and literally means an hour of time

The full span of a lifetime

The final moments of one's life
16 What does "a leaf" subside to in this poem?

Another leaf

A tree

A seed

A flower
17 What does dawn "[go] down to" in this poem?

The earth

The horizon

Day

Night
18 Where does this poem's title reappear?

It does not reappear

At the end of the first stanza

The final line

The first line
19 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

Three

Four

One

Two
20 Each line of this poem is its own sentence.

True

False
21 This poem uses the juxtaposition between day and night to differentiate between good and evil.

True

False
22 This poem is an ode.

True

False
23 What "[sinks] to grief" in the poem?

A leaf in water

A capsized ship

Eden

The speaker
24 What is an "early leaf" compared to in the poem?

A flower

Gold

An infant

Imminent death
25 This poem uses rhyming quatrains.

False

True

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