The Buck in the Snow Quizzes

The Buck in the Snow Quiz

1 Which best describes the speaker?
The speaker is an aging hunter

The speaker is unidentified

The speaker is a baby deer

The speaker is a lightly veiled version of the poet
2 How does the buck die?
The cause of the death is never stated

From the cold

From disease

From hunters
3 Which sound creates alliteration in the phrase "Under the heavy hemlocks"?
V

H

N

M
4 Which best describes the speaker's relationship to the buck?
Tentative interaction

Violent pursuit

Curious observation

Intimate friendship
5 Millay uses a simile to compare falling snow to which of the following?
A feather

Tears

Blood

A bomb
6 Who does the speaker address in the poem's opening lines?
The doe

Herself

The sky

The snow
7 When was this poem published?
1945

1918

1928

1933
8 What is a buck?
A male deer

A baby deer

A female deer

A deer without antlers
9 Which of the following lines includes personification?
How strange a thing is death

into the wood of hemlocks bowed with snow.

I saw them suddenly go

letting fall a feather of snow
10 Which collection was this poem originally a part of?
The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

The Buck in the Snow

Second April

Renascance
11 Which detail may allude to the story of the garden of Eden?
The hemlocks

The snow

The apple trees

The wall
12 What is the poem's form?
Haiku

It does not follow a traditional poetic form

Ode

Sonnet
13 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABAB CDCDCD

AAAAA B CCCCC

AAAAA A BACDAA

ABBA BBCC ABCBA
14 What is the most prominent effect of the poem's repeated long O end rhymes?
Emphasis on the similar-sounding word "doe"

A firm, opinionated tone

A quizzical tone

A ghostly, mournful mood
15 Which best defines the word "hemlock" as used in this poem?
A type of deer

A poisonous plant

A heavy lock used in barns

A conifer tree
16 How does Millay emphasize the contrast between the buck's blood and the snow?
By juxtaposing their red and white colors

By using the word "scalding"

By using assonance

By placing the words "blood" and "snow" in two different lines
17 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Racism

Death

Human/Animal interactions

Nature
18 Which of the following does the "white sky" NOT suggest?
The effects of climate change

The winter cold

The coming of death

Nature's indifference
19 What can the blood be said to symbolize?
Life

War

Guilt

Ancestry
20 What types of stanza appear in this work?
Two quintets and a couplet

An octave and a sestet

Two quintains and two couplets

A quintet, a monostich, and a sestet
21 What does the orchard symbolize?
The speaker's creativity

The abundance of summer

The world of human society

Nature's power over humanity
22 How does Millay dramatize the revelation of the buck's death?
By placing it in a separate line

By making it unclear whether he is alive

By altering the rhyme scheme

By using an exclamation point
23 Alliterative S sounds in the phrase "I saw them. I saw them suddenly go" communicate which of the following?
A sense of speed and movement

The rushing of water outside

The deers' inability to speak clearly

The speaker's secrecy
24 Who is the poem's antagonist?
The doe

The speaker

The buck

Death
25 Which of the following does NOT describe the poem's tone?
Reflective

Contemplative

Philosophical

Furious

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