Nothing Gold Can Stay Quizzes

Nothing Gold Can Stay Quiz

1 Who is the speaker of this poem?
Nature

An unnamed first-person narrator

An unnamed third-person narrator

The Garden of Eden
2 Where is this poem set?
Boston

Eden

New Hampshire

This poem has no specific setting
3 Eden in this poem represents darkness, turning the image's usual meaning on its head.
False

True
4 Consonance is used in this poem.

False

True
5 Nature in this poem is personified as female.

True

False
6 What does gold symbolize in this poem?
Sunlight

Tenderness and care

Monetary value

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

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

True
9 This poem uses rhyming couplets

False

True
10 The title of this poem is misleading.
False

True
11 Which of the following most closely describes the speaker's tone?
Hopeful and trepidatious

Distraught and mournful

Passionate and inspired

Neutral and slightly sorrowful
12 The speaker is unnamed.
False

True
13 How many syllables does each line contain?
Each line contains five syllables except for the last, which contains six

The lines alternately contain eight and ten syllables

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

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

False

True
15 What does "an hour" represent in this poem?
The full span of a lifetime

The final moments of one's life

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

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

A seed

A tree

Another leaf
17 What does dawn "[go] down to" in this poem?
Day

The horizon

The earth

Night
18 Where does this poem's title reappear?
At the end of the first stanza

The final line

It does not reappear

The first line
19 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
Two

Three

One

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

False

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

True
22 This poem is an ode.

True

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

A leaf in water

A capsized ship

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

Gold

A flower

Imminent death
25 This poem uses rhyming quatrains.

False

True

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