Train Journey Quizzes

Train Journey Quiz

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

Born of the Conquerors in 1991

The Moving Image in 1946

The Gateway in 1953
2 What gets personified in the poem?
The sky

The moon

The land and the trees

The train
3 What is the form?
Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan 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 has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker expresses love for nature.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.
6 What is the land compared to?
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.

The land is a sentient being who hates humans.
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 come from

that built my heart

from which I was born

that broke my heart
9 Define "glassed"
Altered

Enclosed

To be observing

Attacked
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?
Starlight

Sunlight

The train's lights

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

poetry moved

dry flight

barren height
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 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.

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
14 Define "crosswise"
diagonally or transversely.

a Christian cross

an argument

the wisdom that comes from anger
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?
First and second-person

Third-person

First-person

Omniscient third-person
16 Which words best describe the way the speaker addresses the trees?
Instructs, Beseeches

Bosses, Instructs

Asks, Implores

Begs, Yells
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?
Breath of dew

Cold sheets

The ability to dance

Crosswise currents
18 Is the speaker awake or asleep in this poem?
Unspecified

Asleep and dreaming.

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

Awake but in an altered state.
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 die.

The trees will reanimate themselves.

The trees will exist in another dimension.

Nothing will happen.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?
divinely, serenely

mysteriously, purposeful

articulate, sharp, and purposeful

dreamlike, consciouss
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?
Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

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

a slender dance

barren height

dry flight
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?
The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

The speaker drives the train.

The speaker observes 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

Exclamation

Parenthesis

Semi colon

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