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 land and the trees

The train

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

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

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

The poem is in free verse

The poem has an extra couplet

The poem has fourteen lines
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 expresses love for nature.

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 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?
Dreamlike

Inviting

Relaxed

Logical
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"
from which I come from

from which I was born

that built my heart

that broke my heart
9 Define "glassed"
Altered

Attacked

Enclosed

To be observing
10 How is the train described?
as an animal traveling north with guns

cold

the barren height

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

The train's lights

Moonlight

Starlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?
poetry moved

dry flight

box-tree

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?
First and second-person

Omniscient third-person

First-person

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

Begs, Yells

Bosses, Instructs

Instructs, Beseeches
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?
Crosswise currents

Breath of dew

Cold sheets

The ability to dance
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 telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?
The trees will reanimate themselves.

Nothing will happen.

The trees will exist in another dimension.

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

divinely, serenely

mysteriously, purposeful

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

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"
23 Which is an example of alliteration?
a slender dance

dry flight

barren height

crosswise currents
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?
Parenthesis

Exclamation

Semi colon

Ellipses

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