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I Started Early — Took My Dog — Quiz

1 What is the first image the speaker encounters?
Mermaids

Whales

Krakens

Frigates
2 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"But no Man moved Me – till the Tide"

"Went past my simple Shoe –"

"Extended Hempen Hands –"

"Until We met the Solid Town –"
3 What kind of ship does the speaker see in the second stanza of the poem?
Frigates

Submarines

Rowboats

Luxury liners
4 What words best describe the emotional shift of the poem?
Wonder to fear

Happiness to despair

Anger to panic

Anxiety to comfort
5 What is the setting of the poem?
The deck of a ship

The beach

A coral reef

A harbor
6 Which of the following things is personified as man in the poem?
The ocean

Seagulls

A whaling ship

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

The frigates

The speaker

The mermaids
8 What is the most famous story about mermaids?
"Creature from the Black Lagoon"

"Undine"

"The Little Mermaid"

"The Sea Lady"
9 How many stanzas does the poem have?
12

3

6

2
10 Which of the following is the Scottish iteration of the mermaid myth?
Sirens

Sea nymphs

Selkies

Salamanders
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA

None

ABAB

ABCB
12 Who wrote the The Little Mermaid?
Emily Dickinson

Herman Melville

Hans Christian Anderson

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

The tide of the ocean

Ropes from a frigate

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 grain of a sand in the desert

A dewdrop on a dandelion sleeve

A needle in a haystack

A bee in a hive
16 What effect does personification NOT have in the poem?
Showcases the range of emotions the ocean can elicit

Articulates the fears women had about their safety and wellbeing

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

Captures the volatility and danger of the water
17 What is the climax of the poem?
The arrival of the speaker's dog

The speaker's attempt to escape the water

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?
Onomatopoeia

Personification

Irony

Understatment
19 When was the poem published?
1891

1955

1861

1981
20 Who is the antagonist of the poem?
The masculine ocean

The speaker's dog

The mermaids

The hempen hands
21 What best describes the poem's genre?
Limerick

Romantic poetry

Nature poetry

Light verse
22 How does the line "I felt his Silver Heel" function in the poem's fourth stanza?
It connotes danger and panic

It reveals the speaker as an unreliable narrator

It shows the creature that has been hiding the waves

It underscores class
23 How does the poem end?
With the departure of a ship

With the swimming of mermaids

With the speaker's narrow escape

With the speaker's demise
24 What does Dickinson refer to with the phrase "hempen hands"?
The pull of the waves

Ropes aboard a ship

Rock on the beach

The hands of sea creature
25 What mythological creature does the poem allude to?
Leviathan

Sea serpents

Mermaids

The Loch Ness Monster

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