The Snow Man Quizzes

The Snow Man Quiz

By Rebecca Bedell · Last reviewed April 27, 2017

1 Which of the following is NOT something the listener observes?

Children building a snowman

Snowy pine trees

Ice-covered juniper trees

The sound of leaves
2 What must the listener have, according to the poem?

A body of snow

A mind of winter

A desire for the cold

A heart of ice
3 The listener must "have been ___________ a long time"

shagged with ice

cold

nothing

alone
4 If the listener meets the poem's conditions, what will he not think of in the sound of the wind?

Cold

Solitude

Longing

Misery
5 With what other sound is the sound of the leaves conflated?

The sound of the trees

The sound of footsteps

The sound of the land

The crunching of snow
6 Where does the poem tell us the wind blowing?

Through the trees

The same bare place

The empty air

Through the listener's mind
7 What is the listener, according to the end of the poem?

Senseless

Enlightened

Nothing

Isolated
8 What causes the spruces to glitter?

The winter moonlight

Their motion in the wind

The winter sun

The melting snow
9 Which of the following philosophies does the poem most closely follow?

Romanticism

Nihilism

Realism

Perspectivism
10 Which literary tool does Stevens make heavy use of towards the end of the poem?

Allusion

Word repetition

Onomatopoeia

Detailed imagery
11 How does Stevens appear to feel about the state of mind he is describing?

Displeased

Hopeful

Euphoric

Neutral
12 Who is the snow man?

Wallace Stevens

The man who shovels the snow

A snowman that the narrator builds

A metaphor for the listener
13 Why does the listener behold "nothing" at the end of the poem?

He has minimized his own point of view

He has closed his eyes

He has given up on understanding winter

He has closely studied nature
14 What effect is created by Stevens' use of one long sentence?

An accumulation of images

Grammatical suspense

Stevens can make several different arguments at once

The speaker appears excited
15 What is the mood of the poem?

Contemplative

Mournful

Demanding

Ecstatic
16 At the poem's midpoint, Stevens transitions from primarily ____ images to ____ ones.

simple to multisensory

auditory to tactile

visual to auditory

tactile to visual
17 Which of the following is NOT a reason why Stevens may have chosen to set his poem in winter?

Winter is generally considered unpleasant

Winter is easy to understand

Winter is relatively blank

Winter is relatively motionless
18 Does Stevens think we should strive to be like the listener in the poem?

He doesn't say, and it may be humanly impossible

No, because it requires deep sadness

Yes, because we will be immune to worry

Yes, because we will see even more beauty in the world
19 How are the spruces described?

as cold

as silent

as rough

as calm
20 Which of the following does NOT have a sound in the poem?

A few leaves

The snow

The wind

The land
21 How might the listener feel at the end of the poem?

Lonely

Nothing

Proud

Critical
22 In which month is the poem set?

January

April

August

December
23 Which of the following does the listener do the LEAST in the poem?

Thinking

Walking

Listening

Looking
24 What role does the speaker play in the poem?

He is quoting what the listener said

He is walking in the snow with the listener

He is an absent, omniscient narrator

He is judging the listener's character
25 What movement is this poem part of?

Romanticism

Imagism

Modernism

Transcendentalism

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