Train Journey Quizzes

Train Journey Quiz

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?
The Gateway in 1953

Woman to Man in 1949

The Moving Image in 1946

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

The sky

The train

The land and the trees
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 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.

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 body of a woman and the figure of a mother.

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?
Logical

Inviting

Relaxed

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

that broke my heart

from which I was born

from which I come from
9 Define "glassed"
Altered

Enclosed

Attacked

To be observing
10 How is the train described?
cold

as an animal traveling north with guns

confused hammering dark

the barren height
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?
Moonlight

Starlight

The train's lights

Sunlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?
dry flight

barren height

box-tree

poetry moved
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

diagonally or transversely.

the wisdom that comes from anger

an argument
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?
First and second-person

Omniscient third-person

Third-person

First-person
16 Which words best describe the way the speaker addresses the trees?
Bosses, Instructs

Asks, Implores

Begs, Yells

Instructs, Beseeches
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?
The ability to dance

Breath of dew

Cold sheets

Crosswise currents
18 Is the speaker awake or asleep in this poem?
Asleep and dreaming.

Awake but in an altered state.

Unspecified

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 praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

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 intimately addressing the land and urging the trees to claim their strength.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?
The trees will reanimate themselves.

The trees will exist in another dimension.

Nothing will happen.

The trees will die.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?
articulate, sharp, and purposeful

divinely, serenely

dreamlike, consciouss

mysteriously, purposeful
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?
Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"
23 Which is an example of alliteration?
dry flight

crosswise currents

a slender dance

barren height
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?
The speaker observes the train.

The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

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

Ellipses

Parenthesis

Semi colon

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