No Coward Soul Is Mine Quizzes

No Coward Soul Is Mine Quiz

1 When was the poem published?
1841

1818

1846

1891
2 What is the poem's central theme?
Power

Love

Faith

War
3 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Quatrains

Sestets

Octaves

Couplets
4 Which of the following lines contains alliteration?
"Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates and rears"

"Though earth and moon were gone"

"Worthless as withered weeds"

"To waken doubt in one"
5 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Tepid

Enraged

Cold

Fervent
6 Who does the speaker explicitly critique?
People with other beliefs

Bishops

Knights

Kings
7 What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
Free verse

ABBA

ABCB

ABAB
8 Who wrote "Pied Beauty"?
Emily Brontë

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Christina Rossetti

Jane Austen
9 What is the genre of the poem?
Religious poetry

Pastoral poetry

Erasure poetry

Love sonnet
10 What image does the speaker use to describe lesser beliefs?
"Wilted flowers"

"Dead shrubs"

"Bare branches"

"Withered weeds"
11 Who wrote "De Profundis"?
Emily Dickinson

Charlotte Brontë

Robert Browning

Christina Rossetti
12 How does the speaker portray God?
As just

As omnipotent

As human

As wrathful
13 Which of the following is not an image in the poem?
Weeds

A stream

A rock

An elm tree
14 What does the speaker mean in the line "And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear"?
That her faith instills strength and power in her

That her faith gives her literal armor

The she is afraid of the dark

That she is compelled to dramatic action
15 Which of the following is NOT a theme in the poem?
Doubt

Family

Eternity

Faith
16 What does the "steadfast rock" symbolize in the poem?
The speaker's unchanging routine

The immortality of God

The wrath of God

The speaker's sermonizing
17 What does the list of verbs in the fifth stanza mean?
That God does a specific set of tasks every day

That God is present everywhere

That the speaker knows a lot of verbs

That the speaker can literally see God
18 What is the meaning of the word "creed" in the poem?
Opinion

Religious belief

Line of poetry

Newspaper column
19 What is the meaning of the word "steadfast" in the poem?
Steady

Quick

Uncertain

Unshakeable
20 How long is the poem?
Five stanzas

Two stanzas

Seven stanzas

Fourteen stanzas
21 What was the name of the collection this poem was published in?
Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems of Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë

The Collected Works of the Brontë Sisters

Poems
22 What novel was Brontë well-known for writing?
Wuthering Heights

Persuasion

Agnes Grey

Jane Eyre
23 What were Emily Brontë's sisters' names?
Charlotte and Anne

Jane and Sylvia

Elizabeth and Mary

Lydia and Rose
24 What is the climax of the poem?
A description of God's omnipotence

The speaker's criticism of people who don't share her faith

A portrayal of a miracle

The speaker's declaration of faith
25 Who is the protagonist of the poem?
A pastor

An angel

The speaker

Emily Brontë

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