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

Nature

Whiskey

Pollen
2 What does Dickinson compare a foxglove to?
A harbor

A tankard

A tavern

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

Four

One

Fifteen
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

Sober and serious

Harsh and comedic

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

The Reformation

The Civil Rights Movement

Transcendentalism
7 Who held the first Women's Temperance Convention?
Susan B. Anthony

Emily Dickinson

Mary Bowles

Louisa May Alcott
8 Where was this poem originally published?
The Springfield Republican

The Brooklyn Daily

The Concord Monitor

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

Monostitches

Sestets

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

"I taste a liquor never brewed –"

"Not all the Frankfort Berries"

"Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats –"
11 What does the word "seraph" allude to in the poem?
A church window

A wine glass

Biblical angels

A beacon of light
12 Which of the following lines contains personification?
"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!"

"When 'Landlords' turn the drunken Bee / Out of the Foxglove's door –"
13 What does "Foxglove" refer to?
A type of flower

A tavern door

The roots of tree

A fox's paw
14 What is the poem's setting?
A busy whaling port

An unnamed countryside during a summer day

A beehive

A cabin in the dead of winter
15 When was this poem published?
1897

1955

1861

1891
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?
Exclamation points

Semi-colons

Periods

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

Oak trees

Butterflies

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

In the first stanza

In the fourth stanza

In the third stanza
20 Which of the following is NOT one of Dickinson's idiosyncrasies?
Frequent use of dashes

Rhyme royal

Unconventional capitalization

Slant rhyme
21 Which of the following is a religious symbol in the poem?
Saints

Tankards

Foxgloves

Drams
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 Baptists

The Calvinists

The Methodists

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

Paradoxical

Cheerful

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

Inclement weather

Famine

War

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