Train Journey Quizzes

Train Journey Quiz

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?
Woman to Man in 1949

The Gateway in 1953

The Moving Image in 1946

Born of the Conquerors in 1991
2 What gets personified in the poem?
The sky

The land and the trees

The moon

The train
3 What is the form?
Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Free verse, resembles an English sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet
4 How is the poem different than a sonnet?
The poem has fourteen lines

The poem has slant rhymes

The poem has an extra couplet

The poem is in free verse
5 In subject matter, how does "Train Journey" resemble a sonnet?
The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.

The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

The speaker expresses love for nature.
6 What is the land compared to?
The land is a sentient being who hates humans.

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

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.

The land is the speaker's mother.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?
Relaxed

Inviting

Logical

Dreamlike
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"
that broke my heart

from which I was born

from which I come from

that built my heart
9 Define "glassed"
Attacked

Enclosed

Altered

To be observing
10 How is the train described?
cold

as an animal traveling north with guns

the barren height

confused hammering dark
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?
The train's lights

Moonlight

Sunlight

Starlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?
box-tree

dry flight

barren height

poetry moved
13 What is assonance?
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 same consonant sounds in a line of text.

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

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
14 Define "crosswise"
a Christian cross

diagonally or transversely.

an argument

the wisdom that comes from anger
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?
Omniscient third-person

First and second-person

Third-person

First-person
16 Which words best describe the way the speaker addresses the trees?
Asks, Implores

Instructs, Beseeches

Begs, Yells

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?
Unspecified

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.
19 How does the speaker convey concern for the environment?
By intimately addressing the land and urging the trees to claim their strength.

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

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

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 reanimate themselves.

The trees will die.

Nothing will happen.

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

divinely, serenely

articulate, sharp, and purposeful

mysteriously, purposeful
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?
Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

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

crosswise currents

barren height

a slender dance
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?
The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

The speaker observes the train.

The speaker drives the train.
25 What device helps convey the process of the speaker gradually waking up?
Exclamation

Ellipses

Semi colon

Parenthesis

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