Train Journey Quizzes

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?

Woman to Man in 1949

The Gateway in 1953

Born of the Conquerors in 1991

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

The land and the trees

The sky

The moon

The train
3 What is the form?

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

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

The poem has an extra couplet

The poem is in free verse

The poem has fourteen lines

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

The speaker expresses love for nature.

The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.
6 What is the land compared to?

The body of a woman and the figure of a mother.

The land is the speaker's mother.

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.

The land is a sentient being who hates humans.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?

Inviting

Relaxed

Dreamlike

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"

Altered

Attacked

To be observing

Enclosed
10 How is the train described?

cold

the barren height

as an animal traveling north with guns

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

Sunlight

Moonlight

Starlight

The train's lights
12 Which is an example of assonance?

poetry moved

barren height

box-tree

dry flight
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"

a Christian cross

an argument

the wisdom that comes from anger

diagonally or transversely.
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?

Omniscient third-person

First and second-person

First-person

Third-person
16 Which words best describe the way the speaker addresses the trees?

Bosses, Instructs

Begs, Yells

Instructs, Beseeches

Asks, Implores
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?

The ability to dance

Crosswise currents

Cold sheets

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

Asleep and dreaming.

Unspecified

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

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

By telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.

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

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?

The trees will exist in another dimension.

The trees will reanimate themselves.

The trees will die.

Nothing will happen.
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"?

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

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

crosswise currents

a slender dance

dry flight

barren height
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

The speaker observes the train.

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?

Parenthesis

Ellipses

Semi colon

Exclamation

Train Journey

by Judith Wright

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