A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1846

1905

1892

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

January and February

May and December

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

ABBC

ABCB

ABBA
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?
Sestets

Couplets

Octaves

Quatrains
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A beautiful summer day in nature

A rainy day by a lake

A dark evening in a forest

A lunar eclipse
6 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"All vanished, like a vision vain,"

"And I, of all the wedding guests,"

"To greet the general glow."

"Is on the surface seen!"
7 Who wrote "As imperceptibly as Grief"?
George Eliot

Emily Dickinson

Emily Brontë

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

Roses

Daffodils

Heather
9 Which of the following images does the speaker revisit during her interior monologue?
Gray rocks

A lake

Singing birds

The rising sun
10 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Eighteen

Eleven

Nine

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

Love sonnet

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse
12 What were Brontë's sisters' names?
Cordelia and Rosalind

Anne and Charlotte

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"?
Anne Brontë

Christina Rossetti

William Wordsworth

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

Winter

Spring

Summer
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?
May's father

The birds

June

A celestial being
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?
A steep bank

A mountain peak

A forest

A seaside jetty
18 How many voices does the poem have?
Two

One

Six

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

Cold but humorous

Lyrical but melancholy

Bright and hurried
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?
When May marries June

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When the sun sets
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?
A beautiful summer day

The first snow of winter

Gardening in her backyard

Swimming in the ocean
22 How does the poem conclude?
With the speaker seeing a celestial shine

With the marriage of May and June

With the beginning of autumn

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

Manchester

Thorton

Liverpool
24 What is personified at the beginning of the poem?
Trees

Birds

Flowers

A pile of rocks
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?
Imagining something has ended before it really has

Thinking of winter

Looking for birds

Writing poetry

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