The Buck in the Snow Quizzes

The Buck in the Snow Quiz

1 Which best describes the speaker?
The speaker is a baby deer

The speaker is unidentified

The speaker is a lightly veiled version of the poet

The speaker is an aging hunter
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

V

N

H
4 Which best describes the speaker's relationship to the buck?
Curious observation

Tentative interaction

Violent pursuit

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 doe

Herself

The snow

The sky
7 When was this poem published?
1945

1933

1918

1928
8 What is a buck?
A male deer

A deer without antlers

A baby deer

A female deer
9 Which of the following lines includes personification?
How strange a thing is death

letting fall a feather of snow

into the wood of hemlocks bowed with snow.

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

Renascance

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

The Buck in the Snow
11 Which detail may allude to the story of the garden of Eden?
The wall

The hemlocks

The apple trees

The snow
12 What is the poem's form?
Haiku

It does not follow a traditional poetic form

Sonnet

Ode
13 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABAB CDCDCD

AAAAA A BACDAA

AAAAA B CCCCC

ABBA BBCC ABCBA
14 What is the most prominent effect of the poem's repeated long O end rhymes?
A ghostly, mournful mood

A firm, opinionated tone

A quizzical tone

Emphasis on the similar-sounding word "doe"
15 Which best defines the word "hemlock" as used in this poem?
A heavy lock used in barns

A conifer tree

A poisonous plant

A type of deer
16 How does Millay emphasize the contrast between the buck's blood and the snow?
By juxtaposing their red and white colors

By using assonance

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

By using the word "scalding"
17 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Human/Animal interactions

Racism

Nature

Death
18 Which of the following does the "white sky" NOT suggest?
The effects of climate change

The winter cold

Nature's indifference

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

Ancestry

War

Guilt
20 What types of stanza appear in this work?
Two quintets and a couplet

A quintet, a monostich, and a sestet

An octave and a sestet

Two quintains and two couplets
21 What does the orchard symbolize?
The speaker's creativity

The world of human society

The abundance of summer

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

By making it unclear whether he is alive

By placing it in a separate line

By using an exclamation point
23 Alliterative S sounds in the phrase "I saw them. I saw them suddenly go" communicate which of the following?
The rushing of water outside

The deers' inability to speak clearly

A sense of speed and movement

The speaker's secrecy
24 Who is the poem's antagonist?
The buck

The doe

The speaker

Death
25 Which of the following does NOT describe the poem's tone?
Contemplative

Philosophical

Reflective

Furious

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