Nothing Gold Can Stay Quizzes

Nothing Gold Can Stay Quiz

By Alana Solin · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed July 08, 2023

1 Who is the speaker of this poem?

An unnamed first-person narrator

An unnamed third-person narrator

Nature

The Garden of Eden
2 Where is this poem set?

Boston

New Hampshire

This poem has no specific setting

Eden
3 Eden in this poem represents darkness, turning the image's usual meaning on its head.

False

True
4 Consonance is used in this poem.

True

False
5 Nature in this poem is personified as female.

False

True
6 What does gold symbolize in this poem?

Tenderness and care

Youth, beauty, and goodness

Sunlight

Monetary value
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

True

False
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.

False

True
13 How many syllables does each line contain?

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

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

The lines alternately contain eight and ten syllables

The lines alternately contain six and eight syllables
14 This poem is a sonnet.

False

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

The final moments of one's life

The full span of a lifetime

A fleeting and unspecified amount of time

It does not represent anything and literally means an hour of time
16 What does "a leaf" subside to in this poem?

A tree

A seed

Another leaf

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

The horizon

The earth

Night

Day
18 Where does this poem's title reappear?

At the end of the first stanza

The final line

It does not reappear

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

One

Four

Three

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.

False

True
22 This poem is an ode.

False

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

Eden

A leaf in water

A capsized ship

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

An infant

Imminent death

A flower

Gold
25 This poem uses rhyming quatrains.

False

True

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