A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A blade of grass

A worm

A bird

A rowboat
2 What kind of stanzas does the poem contain?
Octaves

Quatrains

Sextets

Monostiches
3 Which of the following is NOT a stylistic feature of the poem?
Dashes

Unusual text alignment

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?
Depressed and somber

Plucky and determined

Whimsical and bright

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

Five

Ten

Two
6 When was the poem published?
1861

1891

1898

1918
7 What is the setting of the poem?
The countryside, likely a grassy field

A frozen lake

Cape Cod

The Maine woods
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
A worm

A beetle

Seeds

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

Drinking dew from a blade of grass

Flying home
10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from?
Capentry

Gardening

Seafaring

Tailoring
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"I offered him a Crumb,"

"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"

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

To substitute for periods

To replace semicolons

To indicate repetition and interjection
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The retelling of a ghost story

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The rewriting of a family narrative

The recreation of a crime scene
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of trochaic octameter

Lines of iambic pentameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?
Too complex to categorize

Noble

Murderous

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

The ocean

A rowboat and butterflies

A snake
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the speaker offers the bird a crumb and it takes flight

When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees

When the bird consumes the worm

When the bird drinks dew
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A ruler

A worm found only on sandy beaches

A worm used for bait fishing

A protractor
19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem?
The bird's rapidly moving eyes

The speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm

The bird's graceful flight home

The speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb
20 What is a major theme in the poem?
The curiosity of children

The dangers of the ocean

The pain of unrequited love

The unknowability of nature
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Butterflies

The worm

A whale

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

"Grass" and "pass"

"Seam" and "swim"

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

Reference other poets

Alter the rhyme scheme

Segment individual images
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The dangers of the natural world

The speaker's desire to be free

The difficulty of returning home

Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding
25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work?
Walt Whitman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elizabeth Bishop

Edgar Allan Poe

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