A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1905

1892

1848

1846
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
January and February

May and June

Summer and autumn

May and December
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAB

ABBC

ABBA

ABCB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Couplets

Octaves

Sestets

Quatrains
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A beautiful summer day in nature

A lunar eclipse

A rainy day by a lake

A dark evening in a forest
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"To greet the general glow."

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Emily Brontë

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?
Heather

Lilacs

Daffodils

Roses
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
A lake

Singing birds

The rising sun

Gray rocks
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Eighteen

Eleven

Four

Nine
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Pastoral verse

Love sonnet

Elizabeth poetry

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

Mary and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Little Women

Villette

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë

Gerard Manley Hopkins
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Spring

Winter

Fall

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

May's father

A celestial being

June
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A mountain peak

A steep bank

A forest

A seaside jetty
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Three

Six

One

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

Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy

Cold but humorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When May marries June

When the sun sets
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day

Gardening in her backyard
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the marriage of May and June

With the beginning of autumn

With the end of the day
23 Where was Brontë born?
Manchester

Liverpool

Thorton

Dorset
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
A pile of rocks

Birds

Flowers

Trees
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Looking for birds

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Writing poetry

Thinking of winter

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