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 bird

A rowboat

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

Octaves

Quatrains

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

Unusual text alignment

Slant rhyme

Unconventional capitalization
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

Five

Seven

Two
6 When was the poem published?
1898

1891

1861

1918
7 What is the setting of the poem?
Cape Cod

The Maine woods

A frozen lake

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?
Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Flying home

Staring at her

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

Tailoring

Seafaring

Gardening
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"And ate the fellow, raw,"

"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"

"I offered him a Crumb,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"
12 What was the conventional use of dashes in poetry?
To replace semicolons

To substitute for periods

To indicate repetition and interjection

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

The rewriting of a family narrative

The recreation of a crime scene

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of iambic pentameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

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

Murderous

Noble

Dull
16 To what does the speaker compare the bird in the final stanza?
A rowboat and butterflies

A snake

The ocean

The sun and a swarm of bees
17 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the bird consumes the worm

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

When the bird attacks the speaker and she flees

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

A worm used for bait fishing

A worm found only on sandy beaches

A protractor
19 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole in the poem?
The speaker's trepidation about giving the bird a crumb

The bird's rapidly moving eyes

The bird's graceful flight home

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 dangers of the ocean

The curiosity of children

The pain of unrequited love
21 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
A rowboat

The worm

Butterflies

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

"Seam" and "swim"

"Grass" and "pass"

"Saw" and "raw"
23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work?
Reference other poets

Segment individual images

Alter the rhyme scheme

Shift the meaning of individual words
24 What does the bird's final flight represent?
The dangers of the natural world

Its escape of the speaker's gaze and understanding

The difficulty of returning home

The speaker's desire to be free
25 Which contemporary poet also made use of the dash in their work?
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elizabeth Bishop

Edgar Allan Poe

Walt Whitman

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