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I Started Early — Took My Dog — Quiz

1 What is the first image the speaker encounters?
Frigates

Krakens

Mermaids

Whales
2 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"Extended Hempen Hands –"

"Until We met the Solid Town –"

"Went past my simple Shoe –"

"But no Man moved Me – till the Tide"
3 What kind of ship does the speaker see in the second stanza of the poem?
Rowboats

Luxury liners

Submarines

Frigates
4 What words best describe the emotional shift of the poem?
Anger to panic

Wonder to fear

Anxiety to comfort

Happiness to despair
5 What is the setting of the poem?
The beach

A harbor

A coral reef

The deck of a ship
6 Which of the following things is personified as man in the poem?
A whaling ship

Seagulls

The ocean

Mermaids
7 Who is the poem's protagonist?
The speaker

The frigates

The speaker's dog

The mermaids
8 What is the most famous story about mermaids?
"The Little Mermaid"

"The Sea Lady"

"Creature from the Black Lagoon"

"Undine"
9 How many stanzas does the poem have?
6

2

12

3
10 Which of the following is the Scottish iteration of the mermaid myth?
Sea nymphs

Sirens

Salamanders

Selkies
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
None

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
12 Who wrote the The Little Mermaid?
Emily Dickinson

Hans Christian Anderson

Herman Melville

H.G. Wells
13 What grabs the speaker?
The arms of a man

Ropes from a frigate

The tide of the ocean

The hands of a mermaid
14 What word best describes the tone of the poem?
Uneasy

Confident

Insecure

Serene
15 To what does the speaker compare being devoured by the ocean?
A needle in a haystack

A grain of a sand in the desert

A bee in a hive

A dewdrop on a dandelion sleeve
16 What effect does personification NOT have in the poem?
Captures the volatility and danger of the water

Describes the way the light bounces off of the surface of a wave

Showcases the range of emotions the ocean can elicit

Articulates the fears women had about their safety and wellbeing
17 What is the climax of the poem?
The speaker's attempt to escape the water

The arrival of the speaker's dog

The speaker seeing the mermaids

The speaker feeling like a mouse
18 The lines "And Frigates – in the Upper Floor / Extended Hempen Hands" contain which of the following?
Irony

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Understatment
19 When was the poem published?
1981

1861

1891

1955
20 Who is the antagonist of the poem?
The hempen hands

The mermaids

The speaker's dog

The masculine ocean
21 What best describes the poem's genre?
Romantic poetry

Nature poetry

Light verse

Limerick
22 How does the line "I felt his Silver Heel" function in the poem's fourth stanza?
It underscores class

It connotes danger and panic

It reveals the speaker as an unreliable narrator

It shows the creature that has been hiding the waves
23 How does the poem end?
With the speaker's narrow escape

With the speaker's demise

With the swimming of mermaids

With the departure of a ship
24 What does Dickinson refer to with the phrase "hempen hands"?
Ropes aboard a ship

The hands of sea creature

Rock on the beach

The pull of the waves
25 What mythological creature does the poem allude to?
The Loch Ness Monster

Sea serpents

Leviathan

Mermaids

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