A Bird, came down the Walk Quizzes

A Bird, came down the Walk Quiz

1 What is the main subject of the poem
A bird

A worm

A blade of grass

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

Octaves

Monostiches

Sextets
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?
Whimsical and bright

Depressed and somber

Plucky and determined

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

Ten

Five

Seven
6 When was the poem published?
1861

1918

1891

1898
7 What is the setting of the poem?
The countryside, likely a grassy field

A frozen lake

The Maine woods

Cape Cod
8 What is the bird eating in the first stanza?
A butterfly

A worm

Seeds

A beetle
9 Which of the following actions does NOT complicate the speaker's portrait of the bird?
Flying home

Drinking dew from a blade of grass

Clearing out of the path of a beetle

Staring at her
10 From what trade does Dickinson draw the imagery in the fourth stanza from?
Seafaring

Tailoring

Capentry

Gardening
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 substitute for periods

To indicate enjambment

To indicate repetition and interjection

To replace semicolons
13 What does the opening scene most closely resemble?
The recreation of a crime scene

The reminiscence of a summer afternoon

The rewriting of a family narrative

The retelling of a ghost story
14 What meter does the poem make use of?
Lines of iambic trimeter and tetrameter

Lines of dactylic hexameter

Lines of iambic pentameter

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

Noble

Too complex to categorize

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 drinks dew

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
18 What does the term "Angle Worm" refer to?
A ruler

A protractor

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 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 dangers of the ocean

The pain of unrequited love

The unknowability of nature

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

A whale

A rowboat

Butterflies
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?
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 speaker's desire to be free

The difficulty of returning home

The dangers of the natural world

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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