Train Journey Quizzes

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?

Born of the Conquerors in 1991

Woman to Man in 1949

The Gateway in 1953

The Moving Image in 1946
2 What gets personified in the poem?

The sky

The land and the trees

The moon

The train
3 What is the form?

Free verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet
4 How is the poem different than a sonnet?

The poem is in free verse

The poem has fourteen lines

The poem has an extra couplet

The poem has slant rhymes
5 In subject matter, how does "Train Journey" resemble a sonnet?

The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker expresses love for nature.
6 What is the land compared to?

The land is a sentient being who hates humans.

The land is the speaker's mother.

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.

The body of a woman and the figure of a mother.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?

Relaxed

Dreamlike

Inviting

Logical
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"

from which I was born

that broke my heart

that built my heart

from which I come from
9 Define "glassed"

Enclosed

Altered

To be observing

Attacked
10 How is the train described?

the barren height

as an animal traveling north with guns

cold

confused hammering dark
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?

Moonlight

Starlight

The train's lights

Sunlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?

box-tree

dry flight

poetry moved

barren height
13 What is assonance?

A common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object

A tool of figurative language where an image, idea, object or symbol is used to represent something other than its literal meaning

The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.
14 Define "crosswise"

the wisdom that comes from anger

diagonally or transversely.

a Christian cross

an argument
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?

Omniscient third-person

First-person

Third-person

First and second-person
16 Which words best describe the way the speaker addresses the trees?

Asks, Implores

Begs, Yells

Instructs, Beseeches

Bosses, Instructs
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?

Crosswise currents

Cold sheets

The ability to dance

Breath of dew
18 Is the speaker awake or asleep in this poem?

Asleep and dreaming.

Awake but in an altered state.

At first, the speaker is somewhere in between sleep and wakefulness. Towards the end of the poem she apparently wakes up.

Unspecified
19 How does the speaker convey concern for the environment?

By intimately addressing the land and urging the trees to claim their strength.

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

By telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?

Nothing will happen.

The trees will die.

The trees will reanimate themselves.

The trees will exist in another dimension.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?

articulate, sharp, and purposeful

mysteriously, purposeful

dreamlike, consciouss

divinely, serenely
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"
23 Which is an example of alliteration?

barren height

dry flight

a slender dance

crosswise currents
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?

The speaker observes the train.

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

The speaker drives the train.

The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates
25 What device helps convey the process of the speaker gradually waking up?

Ellipses

Parenthesis

Exclamation

Semi colon

Train Journey

by Judith Wright

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