Emily Dickinson’s Collected Poems Quizzes

Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems Quiz 1

By Alice Cullina · Edited by Soman Chainani · Last reviewed July 26, 2009

1 What does Dickinson not know about her own grief in "I measure every Grief I meet?"

When it started

What caused it

Whether she hides it well

Whether it was always so bad
2 What animal does Dickinson describe as "dun, with wrinkled Wings?"

The crow

The dog

The pterodactyl

The bat
3 What is the second line of "To fill a Gap?"

"Insert the Thing that caused it --"

"Solder it with Doubt --"

"Make it yawn the more --"

"Block it up with Air --"
4 What intoxicates the speaker in "I can wade Grief --"?

The approach of death

Liquor

Grief

Joy
5 Which of the following is the last line of "The first Day's Night had come?"

"My Brain keeps giggling -- still."

"Could it be Madness -- this?"

"And Something's odd -- within."

"Until another Morn."
6 Which of these metaphors does Dickinson use for her life in "Behind Me -- dips Eternity --"?

A single book in a very large library

Ruler of an endless dynasty

A crescent moon in a midnight sea

A solar eclipse
7 What is the reader assumed to be in "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"

Part of the admiring crowd

Nobody

Somebody

A public figure
8 Which of these is the last line of "Success is counted sweetest?"

"Burst agonized and clear!"

"Who took the Flag today!"

"Requires sorest need."

"By those who ne'er succeed."
9 What ceremonial bond do the speaker and her companion perform in "There came a Day at Summer's full?"

Drinking each other's blood

Tying on each other's crucifixes

Sharing a cup of wine

Wrapping a lock of each other's hair around their wrists
10 What does Dickinson say oppresses like the "certain Slant of light?"

Death

Carriage rides

Despair

Hymns
11 Which of the following poems is most focused on the physicality of death?

"The murmurming of bees, has ceased"

"I heard a Fly buzz -- when I Died"

"There's a certain Slant of light"

"Because I could not stop for Death --"
12 How long has it been since the speaker in "Because I could not stop for Death --" died?

A lifetime

Centuries

A day

A year
13 What creature distracts a dying speaker in a Dickinson poem?

A sparrow

A fox

A bee

A fly
14 Which of the following does not describe Emily Dickinson and her poetry?

Difficult

Traditional

Formally subversive

Prolific
15 Who has "the power to kill/Without -- the power to die?"

The loaded gun

The mountains

The gun's master

The emphatic thumb
16 In what season does "There's a certain Slant of light" take place?

Summer

Winter

Fall

Spring
17 What sweet thing is mentioned in "Success is counted sweetest?"

Pear

Strawberry

Nectar

Honey
18 What is "dreary" in "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"

To be nobody

To be part of the admiring public

To be alone

To be somebody
19 What happens to the speaker in "The first Day's Night had come?"

After a tragedy, she finds solace in God

After a tragedy, she loses her ability to make beautiful music

She discovers that one can begin again with each new day

After a tragedy, she descends into madness
20 What is the second line of "Behind Me -- dips Eternity --"?

"Before Me -- only Death"

"Before Me -- Immortality"

"Dissolving into Dawn away"

"And it -- terrifies Me"
21 What creates strength in "I can wade Grief --"?

Happiness

Pain

Training

Love
22 What can you not "solder an Abyss" with, in "To fill a Gap?"

The thing that caused it

Air

Other

Doubt
23 What poem contains these lines: "Refining these impatient Ores / With Hammer, and with Blaze?"

"Behind Me -- dips Eternity --"

"The first Day's Night had come"

"To fill a Gap"

"Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?"
24 Fill in the blank: "Because I could not stop for Death -- / He ___ stopped for me --":

"rudely"

"kindly"

"quickly"

"unfortunately"
25 What color does Dickinson use to describe the fly's buzz in "I heard a Fly buzz -- when I Died --"?

Black

Blue

White

Brown

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