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 land and the trees

The moon

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

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet
4 How is the poem different than a sonnet?
The poem has fourteen lines

The poem is in free verse

The poem has slant rhymes

The poem has an extra couplet
5 In subject matter, how does "Train Journey" resemble a sonnet?
The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

The speaker expresses love for nature.

The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.
6 What is the land compared to?
The land is a sentient being who hates humans.

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.

The body of a woman and the figure of a mother.

The land is the speaker's mother.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?
Relaxed

Dreamlike

Logical

Inviting
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"
from which I was born

that broke my heart

from which I come from

that built my heart
9 Define "glassed"
To be observing

Altered

Attacked

Enclosed
10 How is the train described?
cold

confused hammering dark

as an animal traveling north with guns

the barren height
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?
Sunlight

Moonlight

The train's lights

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

barren height

poetry moved

dry flight
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

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

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"
an argument

diagonally or transversely.

the wisdom that comes from anger

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

First and second-person

Third-person

Omniscient 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?
Breath of dew

Crosswise currents

The ability to dance

Cold sheets
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.

Asleep and dreaming.

Unspecified

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 criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

By telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?
The trees will die.

Nothing will happen.

The trees will exist in another dimension.

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

dreamlike, consciouss

divinely, serenely

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

Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"
23 Which is an example of alliteration?
barren height

dry flight

a slender dance

crosswise currents
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?
Parenthesis

Exclamation

Ellipses

Semi colon

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