Ode to the West Wind Quizzes

Ode to the West Wind Quiz

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

A villanelle with sections in the form of sonnets

Blank verse

A limerick song

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

Destroyer and preserver

Wild spirit

Tranquil one

Uncontrollable
3 Which of the following best encapsulates the speaker's feelings about his childhood?

He was ambivalent about his childhood

He misses feeling free and having a wild imagination

He tries very hard to remember his childhood but cannot do so

He hated his childhood and does not wish to think about it
4 What does the phrase "thou breath of Autumn's being" mean?

The speaker is talking to his friend, who loves the fall

These were the speaker's father's last words

The wind is the essential component of the fall

Autumn is very important to the speaker
5 How is the spring described in the poem?

As a violent sister of the fall

As an uncontrollable and wild force

As a maenad, or a follower of the Greek god Dionysus

As a trumpet player who causes the world to bloom with the note she plays
6 What is the best way to describe the speaker?

A poet who is not content and hoping for change

The wind itself

A detached observer with no stakes in the poem

A professional musician
7 What is a "vast sepulchre"?

A large tomb

A body of water

A large open field

A sword
8 Which of the following is NOT an important theme in the poem?

The importance of democracy

The power of poetry

Freedom

Death and rejuvenation
9 "The leaves dead / Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing" is an example of what literary device?

Metonymy

Simile

Synecdoche

Anthropomorphism
10 What effect does the wind have on the Mediterranean?

The wind causes a sailor on the Mediterranean to capsize

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

The wind causes the waters of the Mediterranean to roil, obscuring what lies beneath its surface

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

His poetry is not good enough

He has never felt the wind on his skin

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?

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

The wind destroys the dead leaves

It causes them to fly up into the air
15 What does the speaker describe as "Pestilence-stricken multitudes?"

Poets

Seeds falling to the ground

People who have fallen on the "thorns of life"

Dead leaves in the autumn
16 How are the winged seeds described?

As angels

As clouds

As corpses in graves

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's rhyme scheme is best illustrated as AABB

The poem does not rhyme

The poem follows the pattern ABAB
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?

The desert

The Mediterranean Sea

Clouds

Dead leaves
20 What are the "Angels of rain and lightning?"

The ruins under the Mediterranean

The spring

Clouds

Real angels
21 What does "azure" mean?

Strange

Wild

Bright blue

Frightening
22 The speaker practices what art form?

Poetry

Writing novels

Music

Painting
23 What does the speaker admire about the wind?

The speaker does not admire the wind

How wild and free it is

How it causes people to change their opinions

How evil it is
24 What is the significance of clouds being described as the hair of a maenad?

It shows how wild and chaotic the wind is

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

It shows that the speaker likes to party

All of the above
25 What does the speaker ask of the wind at the beginning of the fifth section?

To make him into the wind's instrument

To destroy the world

To let him fly like the clouds

For the wind to become his instrument

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