I taste a liquor never brewed Quizzes

I taste a liquor never brewed Quiz

1 What is the "liquor never brewed" to which the speaker refers?
Pollen

Whiskey

Nature

Religion
2 What does Dickinson compare a foxglove to?
A tavern

A harbor

A tankard

A beehive
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Four

Seven

Fifteen

One
4 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

Trochaic hexameter

Ballad metre

Iambic tetrameter
5 What is the poem's tone?
Elated and freewheeling

Harsh and comedic

Sober and serious

Quiet and humble
6 What historical movement was Dickinson influenced by in the writing of this poem?
The Temperance Movement

The Civil Rights Movement

Transcendentalism

The Reformation
7 Who held the first Women's Temperance Convention?
Mary Bowles

Louisa May Alcott

Emily Dickinson

Susan B. Anthony
8 Where was this poem originally published?
The Concord Monitor

The Brooklyn Daily

The Boston Globe

The Springfield Republican
9 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Couplets

Quatrains

Sestets

Monostitches
10 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Reeling – thro' endless summer days –"

"Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats –"

"I taste a liquor never brewed –"

"Not all the Frankfort Berries"
11 What does the word "seraph" allude to in the poem?
A church window

Biblical angels

A beacon of light

A wine glass
12 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"Reeling – thro' endless summer days – From inns of molten Blue –"

"To see the little Tippler Leaning against the – Sun!"

"I taste a liquor never brewed – / From Tankards scooped in Pearl –"

"When 'Landlords' turn the drunken Bee / Out of the Foxglove's door –"
13 What does "Foxglove" refer to?
The roots of tree

A tavern door

A fox's paw

A type of flower
14 What is the poem's setting?
A busy whaling port

A cabin in the dead of winter

An unnamed countryside during a summer day

A beehive
15 When was this poem published?
1861

1897

1891

1955
16 Who is the "little tippler" referenced in the fourth stanza?
A butterfly

A dram of liquor

The speaker

A bee
17 What punctuation in the poem effectively conveys its tone?
Semi-colons

Periods

Exclamation points

Commas
18 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Liquor

Oak trees

Bees

Butterflies
19 Where is religious imagery introduced in the text?
In the first stanza

In the fourth stanza

In the third stanza

In the second stanza
20 Which of the following is NOT one of Dickinson's idiosyncrasies?
Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme

Rhyme royal

Frequent use of dashes
21 Which of the following is a religious symbol in the poem?
Foxgloves

Drams

Saints

Tankards
22 What is the poem's central theme?
The elegance of butterflies

The overwhelming effect of nature's beauty

The dangers of alcohol

The fear of getting lost in the woods
23 What religious sect took the most active role in the temperance movement?
The Methodists

The Pentecostals

The Calvinists

The Baptists
24 What word best describes the poem's opening line?
Cheerful

Inquisitive

Paradoxical

Elegiac
25 What did proponents of the temperance movement believe alcohol caused?
Inclement weather

Famine

War

Crime

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