The Buck in the Snow Quizzes

The Buck in the Snow Quiz

1 Which best describes the speaker?

The speaker is a lightly veiled version of the poet

The speaker is an aging hunter

The speaker is unidentified

The speaker is a baby deer
2 How does the buck die?

From disease

The cause of the death is never stated

From hunters

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

N

V

M

H
4 Which best describes the speaker's relationship to the buck?

Curious observation

Tentative interaction

Intimate friendship

Violent pursuit
5 Millay uses a simile to compare falling snow to which of the following?

Blood

A feather

Tears

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

The sky

The snow

The doe

Herself
7 When was this poem published?

1933

1928

1918

1945
8 What is a buck?

A deer without antlers

A baby deer

A male deer

A female deer
9 Which of the following lines includes personification?

I saw them suddenly go

into the wood of hemlocks bowed with snow.

letting fall a feather of snow

How strange a thing is death
10 Which collection was this poem originally a part of?

The Buck in the Snow

Renascance

Second April

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver
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?

It does not follow a traditional poetic form

Sonnet

Haiku

Ode
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?

A quizzical tone

Emphasis on the similar-sounding word "doe"

A firm, opinionated tone

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

A poisonous plant

A type of deer

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 using the word "scalding"

By placing the words "blood" and "snow" in two different lines

By using assonance

By juxtaposing their red and white colors
17 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?

Death

Human/Animal interactions

Racism

Nature
18 Which of the following does the "white sky" NOT suggest?

The winter cold

The coming of death

The effects of climate change

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

War

Guilt

Life

Ancestry
20 What types of stanza appear in this work?

An octave and a sestet

Two quintains and two couplets

A quintet, a monostich, and a sestet

Two quintets and a couplet
21 What does the orchard symbolize?

The abundance of summer

The speaker's creativity

The world of human society

Nature's power over humanity
22 How does Millay dramatize the revelation of the buck's death?

By using an exclamation point

By making it unclear whether he is alive

By placing it in a separate line

By altering the rhyme scheme
23 Alliterative S sounds in the phrase "I saw them. I saw them suddenly go" communicate which of the following?

The rushing of water outside

The deers' inability to speak clearly

A sense of speed and movement

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

The buck

The speaker

Death

The doe
25 Which of the following does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Philosophical

Reflective

Contemplative

Furious

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