Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

1 What is the poem's central topic?
The Civil War

Romantic passion

Shipbuilding

Puritan values
2 What image from nature does the poem utilize?
An erupting volcano

A beehive

A blizzard

The ocean
3 Who discovered Dickinson's poems after her death?
Samuel Bowles

Susan Gilbert

Austin Dickinson

Lavinia Dickinson
4 Where did Dickinson's poems NOT appear in her lifetime?
Drum Beat

Brooklyn Daily Union

Springfield Republican

The Amherst Review
5 Which of these lines contains alliteration?
"Done with the Chart!"

"Wild nights - Wild nights!"

"Futile - the winds -"

"Might I but moor - tonight -"
6 Which of the following structural features does Dickinson make frequent use of in the poem?
Single word lines

Free verse

Rhyme royal

Dashes
7 What best describes the mood of the poem?
Jealous

Turbulent

Reserved

Woeful
8 Whose dedication was erased from Dickinson's poems when they were first published?
Susan Gilbert

Samuel Bowles

Louisa May Alcott

Sylvia Plath
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA

ABCB

ABAB

It doesn't have one
10 Who published Dickinson's poems after her death?
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

Lavinia Dickinson and Susan Gilbert

Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson
11 What image does Dickinson use to imagine the union of the speaker and their love interest?
A bird returning to its nest

A ship coming to port

Waves on a shoreline

A bee flying to a flower
12 How does the speaker characterize their affection?
Stormy and urgent

Serene and complacent

Unwavering and dull

Aloof and fickle
13 When was the first edition of Dickinson's complete works published?
1955

1868

1891

1971
14 How does the speaker describe the "wild nights" referenced in the title?
As something contentious to be skirted around

As something luxurious to be shared

As something dangerous to be avoided

As something shameful to be hidden
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five

Three

Four

Twelve
16 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Couplets

Octaves

Monostiches

Quatrains
17 What does the line "Rowing in Eden -" reference?
The biblical garden of Eden

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden

The novel East of Eden

Eden, Maryland
18 Who is the poem addressed to?
Samuel Bowles

Lavinia Dickinson

The speaker's mother

The speaker's beloved
19 What does the word "port" mean in the context of the poem?
A lighthouse

A window on a ship

A harbor or dock

A compass
20 How does the speaker imagine feeling during their quest?
Cautious and concerned

Wavering and uncertain

Unstoppable and determined

Frightened and dissuaded
21 How does the word "tonight" function in the last stanza?
As a grim foreshadowing

As an ironic aside

As a passionate interjection

As a joke
22 The lines "Futile - the winds - / To a Heart in port -" are an example of which of the following?
Synecdoche

Zeugma

Simile

Hyperbole
23 When was the first volume of Dickinson's poetry published?
1889

1868

1861

1890
24 Which of the following stylistic elements was Dickinson NOT prominently known for?
Stream of consciousness

Capitalization

Slant rhyme

Dashes
25 How does the poem configure its idea of romance?
As something simple and comfortable

As something polite and inoffensive

As something uncontrollable and frightening

As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

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