The Buck in the Snow Quizzes

The Buck in the Snow Quiz

1 Which best describes the speaker?
The speaker is unidentified

The speaker is a baby deer

The speaker is a lightly veiled version of the poet

The speaker is an aging hunter
2 How does the buck die?
From disease

From the cold

From hunters

The cause of the death is never stated
3 Which sound creates alliteration in the phrase "Under the heavy hemlocks"?
V

M

N

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

Intimate friendship

Violent pursuit

Tentative interaction
5 Millay uses a simile to compare falling snow to which of the following?
Blood

Tears

A bomb

A feather
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?
1928

1918

1945

1933
8 What is a buck?
A baby deer

A male deer

A female deer

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

I saw them suddenly go

into the wood of hemlocks bowed with snow.

letting fall a feather of snow
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 snow

The apple trees

The hemlocks

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

Sonnet

Ode

It does not follow a traditional poetic form
13 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA BBCC ABCBA

ABABAB CDCDCD

AAAAA B CCCCC

AAAAA A BACDAA
14 What is the most prominent effect of the poem's repeated long O end rhymes?
A firm, opinionated tone

A quizzical tone

Emphasis on the similar-sounding word "doe"

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

A conifer tree

A type of deer

A poisonous plant
16 How does Millay emphasize the contrast between the buck's blood and the snow?
By using assonance

By juxtaposing their red and white colors

By using the word "scalding"

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

Nature

Human/Animal interactions

Death
18 Which of the following does the "white sky" NOT suggest?
The winter cold

The effects of climate change

Nature's indifference

The coming of death
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 world of human society

Nature's power over humanity

The speaker's creativity

The abundance of summer
22 How does Millay dramatize the revelation of the buck's death?
By altering the rhyme scheme

By making it unclear whether he is alive

By using an exclamation point

By placing it in a separate line
23 Alliterative S sounds in the phrase "I saw them. I saw them suddenly go" communicate which of the following?
The speaker's secrecy

A sense of speed and movement

The rushing of water outside

The deers' inability to speak clearly
24 Who is the poem's antagonist?
The doe

The buck

Death

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

Reflective

Contemplative

Philosophical

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