A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1892

1905

1848
2 Who is getting married in the poem?
May and December

May and June

January and February

Summer and autumn
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABAB

ABBA

ABBC

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

Sestets

Couplets

Octaves
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A dark evening in a forest

A lunar eclipse

A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"Is on the surface seen!"

"To greet the general glow."

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

Emily Dickinson

George Eliot

Emily Brontë
8 What kind of plant is the speaker lying on a "couch" of?
Daffodils

Roses

Heather

Lilacs
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
A lake

The rising sun

Singing birds

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

Eleven

Four

Eighteen
11 What is the genre of the poem?
Elizabeth poetry

Victorian poetry

Love sonnet

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Jane and Lydia

Mary and Elizabeth

Anne and Charlotte

Cordelia and Rosalind
13 What novel was Brontë famous for writing?
Middlemarch

Little Women

Villette

Wuthering Heights
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?
Christina Rossetti

Anne Brontë

William Wordsworth

Gerard Manley Hopkins
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?
Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
A celestial being

May's father

June

The birds
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A steep bank

A mountain peak

A seaside jetty

A forest
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Six

Three

One

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

Cold but humorous

Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the sun sets

When May marries June

When the speaker has an internal discussion
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
Gardening in her backyard

Swimming in the ocean

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the marriage of May and June

With the end of the day

With the beginning of autumn

With the speaker seeing a celestial shine
23 Where was Brontë born?
Liverpool

Thorton

Manchester

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

A pile of rocks

Birds

Trees
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Writing poetry

Looking for birds

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

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