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I Started Early — Took My Dog — Quiz

1 What is the first image the speaker encounters?
Krakens

Whales

Frigates

Mermaids
2 Which of the following lines does NOT contain alliteration?
"Went past my simple Shoe –"

"But no Man moved Me – till the Tide"

"Until We met the Solid Town –"

"Extended Hempen Hands –"
3 What kind of ship does the speaker see in the second stanza of the poem?
Submarines

Frigates

Rowboats

Luxury liners
4 What words best describe the emotional shift of the poem?
Happiness to despair

Anxiety to comfort

Wonder to fear

Anger to panic
5 What is the setting of the poem?
A coral reef

The deck of a ship

A harbor

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

Mermaids

A whaling ship

Seagulls
7 Who is the poem's protagonist?
The frigates

The speaker

The speaker's dog

The mermaids
8 What is the most famous story about mermaids?
"The Sea Lady"

"The Little Mermaid"

"Undine"

"Creature from the Black Lagoon"
9 How many stanzas does the poem have?
6

2

3

12
10 Which of the following is the Scottish iteration of the mermaid myth?
Sirens

Salamanders

Selkies

Sea nymphs
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
None

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB
12 Who wrote the The Little Mermaid?
Hans Christian Anderson

H.G. Wells

Herman Melville

Emily Dickinson
13 What grabs the speaker?
Ropes from a frigate

The hands of a mermaid

The arms of a man

The tide of the ocean
14 What word best describes the tone of the poem?
Serene

Insecure

Confident

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

A dewdrop on a dandelion sleeve

A grain of a sand in the desert

A bee in a hive
16 What effect does personification NOT have in the poem?
Captures the volatility and danger of the water

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
17 What is the climax of the poem?
The speaker seeing the mermaids

The speaker's attempt to escape the water

The speaker feeling like a mouse

The arrival of the speaker's dog
18 The lines "And Frigates – in the Upper Floor / Extended Hempen Hands" contain which of the following?
Personification

Understatment

Irony

Onomatopoeia
19 When was the poem published?
1955

1861

1981

1891
20 Who is the antagonist of the poem?
The hempen hands

The speaker's dog

The mermaids

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

Nature poetry

Romantic 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 underscores class

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 departure of a ship

With the speaker's narrow escape

With the swimming of mermaids

With the speaker's demise
24 What does Dickinson refer to with the phrase "hempen hands"?
Ropes aboard a ship

Rock on the beach

The hands of sea creature

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

Mermaids

Sea serpents

Leviathan

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