The Yellowhammer’s Nest Quizzes

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1 During what century did John Clare write the majority of his poems?
Twentieth

Seventeenth

Nineteenth

Eighteenth
2 What literary movement was John Clare a part of?
Modernist

Classical

Romantic

Gothic
3 Which of the following is Clare's poetry NOT known for?
Attention to detail

Melancholy tone

Simplicity of style

Fantasy elements
4 Who were John Clare's parents?
Middle-class professionals

Poor farmers

Factory workers

Aristocrats
5 "The Yellowhammer's Nest" is a representative of what era of Clare's career?
Early career

Late career

Mid-career

Childhood writings
6 In what collection did Clare publish "The Yellowhammer's Nest"?
His first collection

His final collection

He never published the poem

His second collection
7 What is a yellowhammer?
Slang for any singing bird

Another word for yellowjacket

A brightly colored tool

A type of songbird
8 Which of the following best characterizes the relationship between speaker and reader in "The Yellowhammer's Nest"?
Rivalry

Tense

Intimate

Distant
9 What is the tense at the beginning of the poem?
Past tense

Future tense

Present tense

Unclear
10 What is ecology?
The classification of biological creatures

The study of the importance of environmental factors

The study of biological creatures

The study of biological relationships
11 Which of the following best characterizes Clare's portrayal of natural creatures?
He portrays them as intrinsically better than humans

He instills them with the same emotional depth as humans

He portrays them as pests who steal the harvest

He portrays them as beautiful decorations in the countryside
12 Which of the following is NOT an example of Clare paying unusual attention to detail?
A happy home of sunshine, flowers and streams.

Five eggs, pen-scribbled o'er with ink their shells

'Tis scarcely deep enough a bee to drown,

Its husk seeds tall and high—'tis rudely planned
13 What is ironic about the beginning of the poem?
The speaker characterizes the stream as harmless by saying what it could harm

The speaker invites his companion to see the nest, even though his companion only wants to harvest berries

The speaker feels close to the yellowhammer, even though he ends up destroying its nest

The yellowhammer flies off to protect itself from the cowboy, which actually allows the snake to destroy its nest
14 Which of the following is NOT a central theme of "The Yellowhammer's Nest"?
Nature's capacity as a poet

The importance of friendship

The inescapability of death

The importance of little things
15 How does Clare depict the snake's attack on the nest?
As a victory for the snake

As a tragedy

As just part of the circle of life

As an example of the yellowhammer's weakness
16 What is Castalay?
A spring frequented by nymphs in Greek mythology

A famous forest in Britain

The home of the muses in Greek mythology

Clare's childhood home
17 What does Clare's allusion to Parnassus imply?
The yellowhammer's partner is a poor singer

The yellowhammer's partner is the real poet

The yellowhammer's partner is a fantasy

The yellowhammer's partner is her muse
18 Which of the following best characterizes the relationship between the speaker and the yellowhammer?
The speaker sees himself as better than the yellowhammer, even though she is really more wise

The speaker stoops to the yellowhammer's level and sees the world from her perspective

The speaker admires the yellowhammer's beauty but scorns her weakness

The speaker sees himself and the yellowhammer as having different but complimentary strengths
19 Which line most closely parallels "A happy home of sunshine, flowers and streams"?
Most poet-like where brooks and flowery weeds

Yet in the sweetest places cometh ill,

Leaving a houseless home, a ruined nest—

And mournful hath the little warblers sung
20 Which of the following is NOT true of the snake attack as Clare describes it?
It is a tragedy

It is a possibility

It is all-consuming

It has already happened
21 Thinking about "The Yellowhammer's Nest" as a whole, which of the following best describes its mood?
Disinterested

Bittersweet

Cheerful

Tragic
22 What is the meter of "The Yellowhammer's Nest"?
Trochaic pentameter (each line is made up of five pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

Trochaic tetrameter (each line is made up of four pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable)

Iambic tetrameter (each line is made up of four pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)

Iambic pentameter (each line is made up of five pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)
23 What is the rhyme scheme of "The Yellowhammer's Nest?"
ABAB

ABACBCDD

No fixed rhyme scheme

ABABCDCC
24 Which of the following contains a metaphor?
When such like woes hath rent its little breast.

Five eggs, pen-scribbled o'er with ink their shells

And like as though the plague became a guest,

And that old molehill like as Parnass' hill
25 Which of the following is an example of allusion?
'Tis scarcely deep enough a bee to drown,

Leaving a houseless home, a ruined nest—

And that old molehill like as Parnass' hill

And like as though the plague became a guest,

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