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

Nature

Whiskey

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

A beehive

A harbor

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

Four

Fifteen

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

Ballad metre

Trochaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
5 What is the poem's tone?
Harsh and comedic

Elated and freewheeling

Sober and serious

Quiet and humble
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 Brooklyn Daily

The Springfield Republican

The Concord Monitor

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Sestets
10 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Not all the Frankfort Berries"

"Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats –"

"I taste a liquor never brewed –"

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

A beacon of light

Biblical angels

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

"To see the little Tippler Leaning against the – Sun!"

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

"When 'Landlords' turn the drunken Bee / Out of the Foxglove's door –"
13 What does "Foxglove" refer to?
The roots of tree

A fox's paw

A tavern door

A type of flower
14 What is the poem's setting?
A cabin in the dead of winter

A busy whaling port

A beehive

An unnamed countryside during a summer day
15 When was this poem published?
1955

1891

1897

1861
16 Who is the "little tippler" referenced in the fourth stanza?
The speaker

A butterfly

A dram of liquor

A bee
17 What punctuation in the poem effectively conveys its tone?
Commas

Periods

Exclamation points

Semi-colons
18 Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the poem?
Liquor

Oak trees

Bees

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

In the fourth stanza

In the second stanza

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

Frequent use of dashes

Unconventional capitalization

Rhyme royal
21 Which of the following is a religious symbol in the poem?
Drams

Saints

Foxgloves

Tankards
22 What is the poem's central theme?
The dangers of alcohol

The fear of getting lost in the woods

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 Calvinists

The Baptists

The Pentecostals

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

Cheerful

Elegiac

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

Inclement weather

Crime

War

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