I taste a liquor never brewed Quizzes

I taste a liquor never brewed Quiz

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

Pollen

Nature

Whiskey

Religion
2 What does Dickinson compare a foxglove to?

A tankard

A tavern

A harbor

A beehive
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?

One

Fifteen

Four

Seven
4 What is the poem's meter?

Ballad metre

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic hexameter
5 What is the poem's tone?

Harsh and comedic

Quiet and humble

Sober and serious

Elated and freewheeling
6 What historical movement was Dickinson influenced by in the writing of this poem?

The Civil Rights Movement

The Temperance Movement

The Reformation

Transcendentalism
7 Who held the first Women's Temperance Convention?

Susan B. Anthony

Mary Bowles

Emily Dickinson

Louisa May Alcott
8 Where was this poem originally published?

The Boston Globe

The Brooklyn Daily

The Concord Monitor

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

Quatrains

Sestets

Monostitches

Couplets
10 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?

"Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats –"

"I taste a liquor never brewed –"

"Not all the Frankfort Berries"

"Reeling – thro' endless summer days –"
11 What does the word "seraph" allude to in the poem?

A church window

A beacon of light

Biblical angels

A wine glass
12 Which of the following lines contains personification?

"When 'Landlords' turn the drunken Bee / Out of the Foxglove's door –"

"Reeling – thro' endless summer days – From inns of molten Blue –"

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

"To see the little Tippler Leaning against the – Sun!"
13 What does "Foxglove" refer to?

A tavern door

A type of flower

A fox's paw

The roots of tree
14 What is the poem's setting?

An unnamed countryside during a summer day

A cabin in the dead of winter

A busy whaling port

A beehive
15 When was this poem published?

1955

1891

1861

1897
16 Who is the "little tippler" referenced in the fourth stanza?

A butterfly

A dram of liquor

A bee

The speaker
17 What punctuation in the poem effectively conveys its tone?

Semi-colons

Commas

Exclamation points

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

Oak trees

Bees

Butterflies

Liquor
19 Where is religious imagery introduced in the text?

In the second stanza

In the first stanza

In the third stanza

In the fourth stanza
20 Which of the following is NOT one of Dickinson's idiosyncrasies?

Slant rhyme

Unconventional capitalization

Rhyme royal

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

Tankards

Drams

Foxgloves

Saints
22 What is the poem's central theme?

The elegance of butterflies

The dangers of alcohol

The overwhelming effect of nature's beauty

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

The Pentecostals

The Methodists

The Baptists

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

Cheerful

Paradoxical

Elegiac

Inquisitive
25 What did proponents of the temperance movement believe alcohol caused?

Crime

Famine

Inclement weather

War

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