A Day Dream Quizzes

A Day Dream Quiz

By John Melendez · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed June 18, 2022

1 When was the poem published?

1846

1892

1848

1905
2 Who is getting married in the poem?

January and February

May and December

Summer and autumn

May and June
3 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

ABBC

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB
4 What type of stanzas does the poem have?

Octaves

Couplets

Quatrains

Sestets
5 What is the setting of the poem?

A rainy day by a lake

A dark evening in a forest

A lunar eclipse

A beautiful summer day in nature
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"?

Emily Dickinson

George Eliot

Emily Brontë

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

Lilacs

Daffodils

Heather

Roses
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

Nine

Four

Eighteen
11 What is the genre of the poem?

Elizabeth poetry

Victorian poetry

Pastoral verse

Love sonnet
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?

Little Women

Wuthering Heights

Villette

Middlemarch
14 Who wrote "A Dirge"?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anne Brontë

William Wordsworth

Christina Rossetti
15 What season is portrayed in the poem?

Spring

Fall

Winter

Summer
16 Who talks to the speaker at the end of the poem?

A celestial being

The birds

June

May's father
17 What is the meaning of the word "brae" in the poem?

A forest

A steep bank

A mountain peak

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

Three

One

Six

Two
19 What words best characterize the tone of the poem?

Slow and dolorous

Bright and hurried

Lyrical but melancholy

Cold but humorous
20 When does the climax of the poem occur?

When the celestial being talks to the speaker

When the sun sets

When the speaker has an internal discussion

When May marries June
21 What is the speaker unable to enjoy?

Swimming in the ocean

Gardening in her backyard

The first snow of winter

A beautiful summer day
22 How does the poem conclude?

With the beginning of autumn

With the end of the day

With the marriage of May and June

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

Liverpool

Manchester

Thorton

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

Birds

A pile of rocks

Flowers

Trees
25 What is the speaker constantly doing?

Looking for birds

Thinking of winter

Imagining something has ended before it really has

Writing poetry

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