A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A rowboat

A worm

A bird

A blade of grass
2 What kind of stanzas does the poem contain?
Sextets

Octaves

Monostiches

Quatrains
3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem?
Slant rhyme

Unusual text alignment

Unconventional capitalization

Dashes
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?
Plucky and determined

Whimsical and bright

Depressed and somber

Cautious and curious
5 How many stanzas does the poem have
Ten

Seven

Five

Two
6 When was the poem published?
1891

1898

1861

1918
7 What is the setting of the poem?
The Maine woods

A frozen lake

Cape Cod

The countryside, likely a grassy field
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
Seeds

A beetle

A worm

A butterfly
9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird?
Staring at her

Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Flying home

Drinking dew from a blade of grass
10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from?
Seafaring

Gardening

Capentry

Tailoring
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"

"I offered him a Crumb,"

"And ate the fellow, raw,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To indicate enjambment

To replace semicolons

To substitute for periods

To indicate repetition and interjection
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The recreation of a crime scene

The retelling of a ghost story

The rewriting of a family narrative
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of iambic pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of trochaic octameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?
Dull

Too complex to categorize

Noble

Murderous
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
The sun and a swarm of bees

The ocean

A snake

A rowboat and butterflies
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the bird consumes the worm

When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees

When the speaker offers the bird a crumb and it takes flight

When the bird drinks dew
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A worm found only on sandy beaches

A worm used for bait fishing

A protractor

A ruler
19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem?
The bird's graceful flight home

The bird's rapidly moving eyes

The speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb

The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm
20 What is a major theme in the poem?
The unknowability of nature

The pain of unrequited love

The dangers of the ocean

The curiosity of children
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Butterflies

A whale

The worm

A rowboat
22 Which pair of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?
"Walk" and "halves"

"Seam" and "swim"

"Saw" and "raw"

"Grass" and "pass"
23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work?
Shift the meaning of individual words

Alter the rhyme scheme

Reference other poets

Segment individual images
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The speaker's desire to be free

Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding

The difficulty of returning home

The dangers of the natural world
25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work?
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Walt Whitman

Elizabeth Bishop

Edgar Allan Poe

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