The Buck in the Snow Quizzes

The Buck in the Snow Quiz

1 Which best describes the speaker?

The speaker is an aging hunter

The speaker is unidentified

The speaker is a baby deer

The speaker is a lightly veiled version of the poet
2 How does the buck die?

From disease

From hunters

From the cold

The cause of the death is never stated
3 Which sound creates alliteration in the phrase "Under the heavy hemlocks"?

M

H

V

N
4 Which best describes the speaker's relationship to the buck?

Curious observation

Violent pursuit

Tentative interaction

Intimate friendship
5 Millay uses a simile to compare falling snow to which of the following?

A feather

Blood

Tears

A bomb
6 Who does the speaker address in the poem's opening lines?

The sky

The doe

Herself

The snow
7 When was this poem published?

1945

1928

1933

1918
8 What is a buck?

A female deer

A male deer

A baby deer

A deer without antlers
9 Which of the following lines includes personification?

into the wood of hemlocks bowed with snow.

letting fall a feather of snow

How strange a thing is death

I saw them suddenly go
10 Which collection was this poem originally a part of?

Renascance

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

The Buck in the Snow

Second April
11 Which detail may allude to the story of the garden of Eden?

The apple trees

The hemlocks

The wall

The snow
12 What is the poem's form?

It does not follow a traditional poetic form

Ode

Haiku

Sonnet
13 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABBA BBCC ABCBA

AAAAA A BACDAA

AAAAA B CCCCC

ABABAB CDCDCD
14 What is the most prominent effect of the poem's repeated long O end rhymes?

A firm, opinionated tone

Emphasis on the similar-sounding word "doe"

A quizzical tone

A ghostly, mournful mood
15 Which best defines the word "hemlock" as used in this poem?

A poisonous plant

A conifer tree

A heavy lock used in barns

A type of deer
16 How does Millay emphasize the contrast between the buck's blood and the snow?

By placing the words "blood" and "snow" in two different lines

By juxtaposing their red and white colors

By using the word "scalding"

By using assonance
17 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?

Death

Racism

Human/Animal interactions

Nature
18 Which of the following does the "white sky" NOT suggest?

Nature's indifference

The effects of climate change

The winter cold

The coming of death
19 What can the blood be said to symbolize?

Ancestry

Guilt

War

Life
20 What types of stanza appear in this work?

Two quintets and a couplet

A quintet, a monostich, and a sestet

Two quintains and two couplets

An octave and a sestet
21 What does the orchard symbolize?

The world of human society

The speaker's creativity

The abundance of summer

Nature's power over humanity
22 How does Millay dramatize the revelation of the buck's death?

By making it unclear whether he is alive

By placing it in a separate line

By using an exclamation point

By altering the rhyme scheme
23 Alliterative S sounds in the phrase "I saw them. I saw them suddenly go" communicate which of the following?

The deers' inability to speak clearly

The speaker's secrecy

The rushing of water outside

A sense of speed and movement
24 Who is the poem's antagonist?

The speaker

The buck

Death

The doe
25 Which of the following does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Reflective

Furious

Contemplative

Philosophical

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