A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1848

1905

1892
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
May and December

January and February

Summer and autumn

May and June
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBC

ABCB

ABBA

ABAB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Octaves

Sestets

Couplets

Quatrains
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A dark evening in a forest

A beautiful summer day in nature

A lunar eclipse

A rainy day by a lake
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"To greet the general glow."

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"Is on the surface seen!"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
George Eliot

Christina Rossetti

Emily Dickinson

Emily Brontë
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?
Heather

Daffodils

Lilacs

Roses
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
The rising sun

Singing birds

Gray rocks

A lake
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Nine

Four

Eighteen

Eleven
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse

Elizabeth poetry
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Jane and Lydia

Cordelia and Rosalind

Mary and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Villette

Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch

Little Women
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Christina Rossetti

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anne Brontë

William Wordsworth
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
The birds

June

May's father

A celestial being
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A forest

A mountain peak

A seaside jetty

A steep bank
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Two

Six

Three

One
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Slow and dolorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Bright and hurried

Cold but humorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the sun sets

When May marries June

When the speaker has an internal discussion
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

Gardening in her backyard

A beautiful summer day
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the end of the day

With the marriage of May and June

With the beginning of autumn
23 Where was Brontë born?
Dorset

Thorton

Liverpool

Manchester
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
Birds

Trees

Flowers

A pile of rocks
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Looking for birds

Writing poetry

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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