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?

Quatrains

Sextets

Octaves

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

Unconventional capitalization

Dashes

Slant rhyme

Unusual text alignment
4 Which of the following best describes the tone of the poem?

Plucky and determined

Whimsical and bright

Cautious and curious

Depressed and somber
5 How many stanzas does the poem have

Five

Seven

Ten

Two
6 When was the poem published?

1918

1898

1861

1891
7 What is the setting of the poem?

Cape Cod

The countryside, likely a grassy field

The Maine woods

A frozen lake
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?

Seeds

A butterfly

A worm

A beetle
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

Gardening

Seafaring
11 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"I offered him a Crumb,"

"He glanced with rapid eyes,"

"Than Oars divide the Ocean,"

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

To replace semicolons

To indicate enjambment

To substitute for periods

To indicate repetition and interjection
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 trochaic octameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of iambic pentameter
15 By the poem's end, how does the speaker come to view the bird?

Noble

Murderous

Dull

Too complex to categorize
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 protractor

A ruler

A worm used for bait fishing

A worm found only on sandy beaches
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 speaker's dramatic depiction of the bird consuming a worm

The bird's graceful flight home
20 What is a major theme in the poem?

The pain of unrequited love

The curiosity of children

The dangers of the ocean

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

A rowboat

A whale

Butterflies

The worm
22 Which pair of words forms a slant rhyme in the poem?

"Saw" and "raw"

"Grass" and "pass"

"Walk" and "halves"

"Seam" and "swim"
23 What effect did Dickinson achieve with the use of dashes in her work?

Alter the rhyme scheme

Reference other poets

Segment individual images

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

The difficulty of returning home

The dangers of the natural world

The speaker's desire to be free

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

Walt Whitman

Edgar Allan Poe

Elizabeth Bishop

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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