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 unidentified

The speaker is a baby deer

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

From disease

From hunters

From the cold

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

H

V

M

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

Tentative interaction

Violent pursuit

Intimate friendship

Curious observation
5 Millay uses a simile to compare falling snow to which of the following?

A bomb

Tears

A feather

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

The sky

The snow

Herself

The doe
7 When was this poem published?

1918

1933

1945

1928
8 What is a buck?

A deer without antlers

A male deer

A female deer

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

How strange a thing is death

into the wood of hemlocks bowed with snow.

letting fall a feather of snow

I saw them suddenly go
10 Which collection was this poem originally a part of?

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

Renascance

The Buck in the Snow

Second April
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

Ode

It does not follow a traditional poetic form

Sonnet
13 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABABAB CDCDCD

AAAAA A BACDAA

ABBA BBCC ABCBA

AAAAA B CCCCC
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 heavy lock used in barns

A type of deer

A conifer tree

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?

Nature

Death

Racism

Human/Animal interactions
18 Which of the following does the "white sky" NOT suggest?

The winter cold

Nature's indifference

The coming of death

The effects of climate change
19 What can the blood be said to symbolize?

War

Life

Ancestry

Guilt
20 What types of stanza appear in this work?

Two quintets and a couplet

A quintet, a monostich, and a sestet

Two quintains and two couplets

An octave and a sestet
21 What does the orchard symbolize?

The abundance of summer

The world of human society

Nature's power over humanity

The speaker's creativity
22 How does Millay dramatize the revelation of the buck's death?

By altering the rhyme scheme

By placing it in a separate line

By using an exclamation point

By making it unclear whether he is alive
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 speaker

Death

The doe

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

Contemplative

Philosophical

Reflective

Furious

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