A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1848

1905

1892

1846
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
May and June

January and February

Summer and autumn

May and December
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABBA

ABAB

ABBC

ABCB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Couplets

Octaves

Quatrains

Sestets
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A rainy day by a lake

A lunar eclipse

A beautiful summer day in nature

A dark evening in a forest
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"Is on the surface seen!"

"To greet the general glow."

"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
Emily Brontë

George Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?
Roses

Daffodils

Heather

Lilacs
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
Singing birds

A lake

The rising sun

Gray rocks
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Eleven

Eighteen

Nine

Four
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Love sonnet

Elizabeth poetry

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind

Jane and Lydia

Mary and Elizabeth
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Middlemarch

Little Women

Villette

Wuthering Heights
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Gerard Manley Hopkins

William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Fall

Spring

Summer

Winter
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
June

A celestial being

May's father

The birds
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A seaside jetty

A steep bank

A forest

A mountain peak
18 How many voices does the poem have?
One

Three

Two

Six
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?
Slow and dolorous

Bright and hurried

Cold but humorous

Lyrical but melancholy
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When May marries June

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the sun sets
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day

Gardening in her backyard
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the beginning of autumn

With the marriage of May and June

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the end of the day
23 Where was Brontë born?
Liverpool

Manchester

Thorton

Dorset
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
Birds

Trees

A pile of rocks

Flowers
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Thinking of winter

Writing poetry

Looking for birds

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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