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

Nature

Whiskey
2 What does Dickinson compare a foxglove to?
A tankard

A tavern

A harbor

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

Seven

One

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

Trochaic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter

Ballad metre
5 What is the poem's tone?
Sober and serious

Elated and freewheeling

Harsh and comedic

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

The Reformation

The Civil Rights Movement

The Temperance Movement
7 Who held the first Women's Temperance Convention?
Louisa May Alcott

Mary Bowles

Susan B. Anthony

Emily Dickinson
8 Where was this poem originally published?
The Brooklyn Daily

The Springfield Republican

The Concord Monitor

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

Monostitches

Couplets

Quatrains
10 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats –"

"Not all the Frankfort Berries"

"Reeling – thro' endless summer days –"

"I taste a liquor never brewed –"
11 What does the word "seraph" allude to in the poem?
Biblical angels

A church window

A wine glass

A beacon of light
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 type of flower

The roots of tree

A fox's paw

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 beehive

A busy whaling port
15 When was this poem published?
1861

1955

1897

1891
16 Who is the "little tippler" referenced in the fourth stanza?
A dram of liquor

A butterfly

A bee

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

Periods

Commas

Semi-colons
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 fourth stanza

In the second stanza

In the third stanza

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

Unconventional capitalization

Rhyme royal

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

Drams

Tankards

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

The elegance of butterflies

The dangers of alcohol

The overwhelming effect of nature's beauty
23 What religious sect took the most active role in the temperance movement?
The Methodists

The Pentecostals

The Baptists

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

Inquisitive

Elegiac

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

Crime

Inclement weather

War

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