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?
Religion

Pollen

Whiskey

Nature
2 What does Dickinson compare a foxglove to?
A beehive

A tavern

A tankard

A harbor
3 How many stanzas does the poem have?
Fifteen

Seven

Four

One
4 What is the poem's meter?
Trochaic hexameter

Ballad metre

Iambic tetrameter

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

Quiet and humble

Harsh and comedic

Sober and serious
6 What historical movement was Dickinson influenced by in the writing of this poem?
The Civil Rights Movement

Transcendentalism

The Reformation

The Temperance Movement
7 Who held the first Women's Temperance Convention?
Emily Dickinson

Louisa May Alcott

Mary Bowles

Susan B. Anthony
8 Where was this poem originally published?
The Springfield Republican

The Concord Monitor

The Brooklyn Daily

The Boston Globe
9 What type of stanzas does the poem contain?
Monostitches

Sestets

Quatrains

Couplets
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 beacon of light

A wine glass

Biblical angels

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

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

"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 fox's paw

The roots of tree

A type of flower

A tavern door
14 What is the poem's setting?
A cabin in the dead of winter

An unnamed countryside during a summer day

A busy whaling port

A beehive
15 When was this poem published?
1891

1897

1861

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

A bee

The speaker

A dram of liquor
17 What punctuation in the poem effectively conveys its tone?
Periods

Commas

Semi-colons

Exclamation points
18 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Butterflies

Liquor

Oak trees

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

In the third stanza

In the fourth stanza

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

Frequent use of dashes

Rhyme royal

Unconventional capitalization
21 Which of the following is a religious symbol in the poem?
Foxgloves

Saints

Tankards

Drams
22 What is the poem's central theme?
The fear of getting lost in the woods

The dangers of alcohol

The overwhelming effect of nature's beauty

The elegance of butterflies
23 What religious sect took the most active role in the temperance movement?
The Pentecostals

The Baptists

The Calvinists

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

Paradoxical

Elegiac

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

Famine

War

Crime

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