This Is My Letter to the World Quizzes

This Is My Letter to the World Quiz

1 Which adjectives best describes the tone of poem?
Relaxed and serene

Pensive and uncertain

Heated and contentious

Cool and removed
2 What image does the speaker open the poem with?
The sun

A quill

Hands

A letter
3 What is the major conflict of the poem?
The speaker feeling oppressed by her family

The speaker attempting to avoid a large party

The speaking feeling lost in nature

The speaker attempting to overcome isolation and social judgement
4 From what source does the speaker claim to have learned the most?
Boston

Amherst

Farming

Nature
5 What word does the speaker NOT attach to nature?
Message

Judge

Majesty

News
6 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Her Message is committed"

"Judge tenderly—of Me"

"This is my letter to the World"

"The simple News that Nature told—"
7 What is the genre of the poem?
War epic

Aubade

Lyric poetry

Epitaph
8 When does the poem's climax occur?
When the speaker feels accepted in her community.

When the speaker asks her countrymen to judge her tenderly.

When the speaker describes nature.

When the speaker declares her intention to write a letter.
9 What is the meter of the poem?
The poem is written in free verse.

The poem uses lines of dactylic hexameter.

The poem alternates between iambic pentameter and hexameter.

The poem alternates between lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter.
10 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAC

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
11 When was the poem first published?
1889

1980

1890

1891
12 What is one-sided correspondence a metaphor for in the poem?
Determination

Poetry

Loneliness

Music
13 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Eight

Two

Seven

Four
14 What article of clothing was Dickinson frequently seen wearing in her hometown?
A red knit shawl

A black cloak

A white cotton dress

A yellow bonnet
15 What was one of Dickinson's major hobbies?
Woodworking

Birdwatching

Gardening

Stargazing
16 What does the term "countrymen" refer to in the poem?
The authors that the speaker admires

The founding fathers

The speaker's social circle

The speaker's family
17 Which member of Dickinson's family tried to shield her privacy?
Her father Edward

Her brother Austin

Her sister Lavinia

Her mother Emily
18 What town did Dickinson reside in?
Worcester

Plymouth

Boston

Amherst
19 How does the speaker personify nature?
By using the phrase "mother nature"

By envisioning it as a close friend

By comparing it to a guest at a party

By giving it the feminine possessive pronoun "Her"
20 What does the word "majesty" mean?
Stateliness

Hierarchy

Gaudiness

Calm
21 Who does the speaker address in this poem?
Louisa May Alcott

Her siblings

Henry David Thoreau

Her countrymen
22 When did Dickinson begin to withdraw from her social circle?
1867

1860

1806

1891
23 What does the speaker hope to gain from writing this poem?
Material wealth

Religious transcendence

Fame

The understanding of the world around her
24 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Emily Dickinson

Nathaniel Hawthrone

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The population of Massachusetts
25 How does the speaker characterize herself?
Happy and uncurious

Angry and frustrated with the world around her

Lonely and fascinated by nature

Calm and embracing of her town's social life

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