Train Journey Quizzes

Train Journey Quiz

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

Born of the Conquerors in 1991

Woman to Man in 1949

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

The land and the trees

The moon

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

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles an English sonnet

Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet
4 How is the poem different than a sonnet?
The poem has an extra couplet

The poem has slant rhymes

The poem has fourteen lines

The poem is in free verse
5 In subject matter, how does "Train Journey" resemble a sonnet?
The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker expresses love for nature.

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

The land is the speaker's mother.

The land is a sentient being who hates humans.

The body of a woman and the figure of a mother.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?
Dreamlike

Logical

Relaxed

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

from which I come from

that built my heart

from which I was born
9 Define "glassed"
Enclosed

Altered

Attacked

To be observing
10 How is the train described?
the barren height

confused hammering dark

cold

as an animal traveling north with guns
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?
Starlight

Moonlight

Sunlight

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

dry flight

barren height

box-tree
13 What is assonance?
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.

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

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
14 Define "crosswise"
the wisdom that comes from anger

an argument

diagonally or transversely.

a Christian cross
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?
Omniscient third-person

First-person

Third-person

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

Asks, Implores

Begs, Yells

Bosses, Instructs
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?
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.

Unspecified

Asleep and dreaming.
19 How does the speaker convey concern for the environment?
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 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 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?
mysteriously, purposeful

articulate, sharp, and purposeful

dreamlike, consciouss

divinely, serenely
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?
a slender dance

dry flight

crosswise currents

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

The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates

The speaker drives the train.

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

Parenthesis

Ellipses

Semi colon

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