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

Religion

Nature

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

A harbor

A tankard

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

Fifteen

Four

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

Trochaic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter

Ballad metre
5 What is the poem's tone?
Elated and freewheeling

Harsh and comedic

Quiet and humble

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

The Civil Rights Movement

The Reformation

The Temperance Movement
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 Brooklyn Daily

The Springfield Republican

The Concord Monitor

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

Sestets

Couplets

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

"Reeling – thro' endless summer days –"

"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 wine glass

A beacon of light
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 type of flower

A fox's paw

The roots of tree

A tavern door
14 What is the poem's setting?
An unnamed countryside during a summer day

A cabin in the dead of winter

A beehive

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

1891

1955

1897
16 Who is the "little tippler" referenced in the fourth stanza?
A dram of liquor

A bee

A butterfly

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?
Bees

Butterflies

Oak trees

Liquor
19 Where is religious imagery introduced in the text?
In the fourth stanza

In the third stanza

In the second stanza

In the first stanza
20 Which of the following is NOT one of Dickinson's idiosyncrasies?
Rhyme royal

Slant rhyme

Frequent use of dashes

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

Saints

Tankards

Foxgloves
22 What is the poem's central theme?
The overwhelming effect of nature's beauty

The fear of getting lost in the woods

The elegance of butterflies

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

The Methodists

The Calvinists

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

Elegiac

Cheerful

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

Crime

Inclement weather

Famine

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