Ode to the West Wind Quizzes

Ode to the West Wind Quiz

1 Which of the following best describes the form of "Ode to the West Wind"?
Blank verse

A terza rima poem with sections in the form of sonnets

A limerick song

A villanelle with sections in the form of sonnets
2 Which of the following is NOT a way that the speaker describes the wind?
Uncontrollable

Tranquil one

Wild spirit

Destroyer and preserver
3 Which of the following best encapsulates the speaker's feelings about his childhood?
He tries very hard to remember his childhood but cannot do so

He hated his childhood and does not wish to think about it

He misses feeling free and having a wild imagination

He was ambivalent about his childhood
4 What does the phrase "thou breath of Autumn's being" mean?
The wind is the essential component of the fall

Autumn is very important to the speaker

These were the speaker's father's last words

The speaker is talking to his friend, who loves the fall
5 How is the spring described in the poem?
As an uncontrollable and wild force

As a trumpet player who causes the world to bloom with the note she plays

As a violent sister of the fall

As a maenad, or a follower of the Greek god Dionysus
6 What is the best way to describe the speaker?
A poet who is not content and hoping for change

A professional musician

The wind itself

A detached observer with no stakes in the poem
7 What is a "vast sepulchre"?
A sword

A large tomb

A large open field

A body of water
8 Which of the following is NOT an important theme in the poem?
Death and rejuvenation

The power of poetry

Freedom

The importance of democracy
9 "The leaves dead / Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing" is an example of what literary device?
Simile

Synecdoche

Anthropomorphism

Metonymy
10 What effect does the wind have on the Mediterranean?
The wind causes the waters of the Mediterranean to roil, obscuring what lies beneath its surface

The wind causes a sailor on the Mediterranean to capsize

The wind causes a tidal wave on the waters of the Mediterranean

The wind has no effect on the Mediterranean because the sea is more powerful than the wind
11 How does the speaker describe the ruins beneath the Mediterranean?
They are beautiful relics of the past

The are disgusting and moldy

The speaker wishes to destroy the ruins because they represent the past

The speaker cannot describe the ruins because he cannot see them
12 What is the speaker's main complaint about his life?
He feels trapped by aging and modern life

He has never felt the wind on his skin

His poetry is not good enough

He does not want to die
13 What is the significance of the poem's closing couplet?
The speaker does not know the order of the seasons

It is a reference to the theme that rebirth follows death and destruction

The speaker hates the winter

The speaker is looking forward to an important day in the spring
14 What effect does the wind have on dead leaves?
It causes them to fly up into the air

The wind destroys the dead leaves

The wind is not strong enough to have an effect on the leaves

It causes them to fall to the ground like ghosts running away
15 What does the speaker describe as "Pestilence-stricken multitudes?"
Dead leaves in the autumn

Poets

Seeds falling to the ground

People who have fallen on the "thorns of life"
16 How are the winged seeds described?
As corpses in graves

As angels

As clouds

As zombified bodies
17 Describe the poem's rhyme scheme.
The middle line of each stanza provides the rhyme for the first and third lines of the next stanza

The poem does not rhyme

The poem follows the pattern ABAB

The poem's rhyme scheme is best illustrated as AABB
18 What is a "clarion"?
A musician

A geologic time period

A trumpet

A type of poem
19 Which of the following parts of the natural world is not mentioned in the poem?
Dead leaves

The desert

Clouds

The Mediterranean Sea
20 What are the "Angels of rain and lightning?"
The spring

Clouds

Real angels

The ruins under the Mediterranean
21 What does "azure" mean?
Bright blue

Frightening

Strange

Wild
22 The speaker practices what art form?
Painting

Writing novels

Poetry

Music
23 What does the speaker admire about the wind?
How evil it is

How wild and free it is

The speaker does not admire the wind

How it causes people to change their opinions
24 What is the significance of clouds being described as the hair of a maenad?
It shows that the speaker likes to party

It shows how wild and chaotic the wind is

It shows that the speaker is a follower of the god Dionysus

All of the above
25 What does the speaker ask of the wind at the beginning of the fifth section?
For the wind to become his instrument

To let him fly like the clouds

To destroy the world

To make him into the wind's instrument

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