The Snow Man Quizzes

The Snow Man Quiz

1 Which of the following is NOT something the listener observes?
The sound of leaves

Snowy pine trees

Children building a snowman

Ice-covered juniper trees
2 What must the listener have, according to the poem?
A heart of ice

A body of snow

A desire for the cold

A mind of winter
3 The listener must "have been ___________ a long time"
alone

shagged with ice

cold

nothing
4 If the listener meets the poem's conditions, what will he not think of in the sound of the wind?
Misery

Cold

Longing

Solitude
5 With what other sound is the sound of the leaves conflated?
The sound of the land

The sound of footsteps

The sound of the trees

The crunching of snow
6 Where does the poem tell us the wind blowing?
Through the listener's mind

Through the trees

The same bare place

The empty air
7 What is the listener, according to the end of the poem?
Enlightened

Isolated

Senseless

Nothing
8 What causes the spruces to glitter?
The winter moonlight

The melting snow

Their motion in the wind

The winter sun
9 Which of the following philosophies does the poem most closely follow?
Perspectivism

Romanticism

Nihilism

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

Onomatopoeia

Word repetition

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?
A snowman that the narrator builds

Wallace Stevens

The man who shovels the snow

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?
Stevens can make several different arguments at once

Grammatical suspense

The speaker appears excited

An accumulation of images
15 What is the mood of the poem?
Demanding

Contemplative

Mournful

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

tactile to visual

auditory to tactile

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

Winter is relatively blank

Winter is relatively motionless

Winter is generally considered unpleasant
18 Does Stevens think we should strive to be like the listener in the poem?
Yes, because we will be immune to worry

No, because it requires deep sadness

Yes, because we will see even more beauty in the world

He doesn't say, and it may be humanly impossible
19 How are the spruces described?
as calm

as rough

as silent

as cold
20 Which of the following does NOT have a sound in the poem?
A few leaves

The wind

The land

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

Proud

Lonely

Nothing
22 In which month is the poem set?
April

January

December

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

Walking

Looking

Listening
24 What role does the speaker play in the poem?
He is walking in the snow with the listener

He is judging the listener's character

He is quoting what the listener said

He is an absent, omniscient narrator
25 What movement is this poem part of?
Transcendentalism

Modernism

Romanticism

Imagism

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