Nothing Gold Can Stay Quizzes

Nothing Gold Can Stay Quiz

By Alana Solin · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed July 08, 2023

1 Who is the speaker of this poem?

An unnamed first-person narrator

The Garden of Eden

An unnamed third-person narrator

Nature
2 Where is this poem set?

This poem has no specific setting

Eden

Boston

New Hampshire
3 Eden in this poem represents darkness, turning the image's usual meaning on its head.

True

False
4 Consonance is used in this poem.

True

False
5 Nature in this poem is personified as female.

False

True
6 What does gold symbolize in this poem?

Tenderness and care

Sunlight

Monetary value

Youth, beauty, and goodness
7 Eden is personified in this poem as a woman.

True

False
8 This poem uses an "AABB" rhyme scheme.

True

False
9 This poem uses rhyming couplets

True

False
10 The title of this poem is misleading.

True

False
11 Which of the following most closely describes the speaker's tone?

Neutral and slightly sorrowful

Passionate and inspired

Distraught and mournful

Hopeful and trepidatious
12 The speaker is unnamed.

False

True
13 How many syllables does each line contain?

The lines alternately contain six and eight syllables

Each line contains six syllables except for the last, which contains five

Each line contains five syllables except for the last, which contains six

The lines alternately contain eight and ten syllables
14 This poem is a sonnet.

False

True
15 What does "an hour" represent in this poem?

The final moments of one's life

It does not represent anything and literally means an hour of time

The full span of a lifetime

A fleeting and unspecified amount of time
16 What does "a leaf" subside to in this poem?

A tree

Another leaf

A flower

A seed
17 What does dawn "[go] down to" in this poem?

The horizon

Night

The earth

Day
18 Where does this poem's title reappear?

The first line

The final line

It does not reappear

At the end of the first stanza
19 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

Three

Four

Two

One
20 Each line of this poem is its own sentence.

True

False
21 This poem uses the juxtaposition between day and night to differentiate between good and evil.

True

False
22 This poem is an ode.

False

True
23 What "[sinks] to grief" in the poem?

Eden

A capsized ship

A leaf in water

The speaker
24 What is an "early leaf" compared to in the poem?

An infant

Gold

Imminent death

A flower
25 This poem uses rhyming quatrains.

False

True

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