1 Which of the following establishes the setting of "The Darkling Thrush"? "strings of broken lyres" "Frost was spectre-grey" "a coppice gate" "household fires" 2 Which of the following is NOT an example of antiquated diction? "corpse outleant" "Winter's dregs" "bine-stems" "coppice gate" 3 "Spectre-grey" foreshadows which of the following moments in the poem? "The Century's corpse outleant" "shrunken hard and dry" "little cause for carolings" "Some blessed Hope" 4 Which of the following best expresses why Hardy personifies Frost in the first stanza? To suggest that Frost is malicious To suggest that the natural world works actively upon the human world To imply that the speaker follows a pagan understanding of natural gods To introduce a character named Frost 5 Which of the following is an example of hyperbole? "every spirit upon earth/ Seemed fervourless as I." "At once a voice arose among/ The bleak twigs" "all mankind that haunted nigh/ Had sought their household fires." "So little cause for carolings/ Of such ecstatic sound" 6 Which of the following best expresses the tone of the speaker in "The Darkling Thrush"? Disappointed, unhinged Cynical, indifferent Joyous, optimistic Pessimistic, despairing 7 Which of the following best expresses the meaning of "outleant" in line 10? Revived Escaped Leaning out On display 8 Which of the following is NOT an example of alliteration? "Winter's dregs made desolate" "The Century's corpse outleant" "His crypt the cloudy canopy" "In blast-beruffled plume" 9 Which of the following has led critics to classify "The Darkling Thrush" as an early modernist work? The presence of allusions Hardy's use of a strict metric structure The hopeless attitude towards the new century The brevity of the poem 10 Which of the following is NOT one of the poems Hardy is alluding to? Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Windhover" Percy Shelley, "To a Skylark" John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" John Milton, "Paradise Lost" 11 What is the significance of the metaphor to "strings of broken lyres"? It suggests that song is the only way to bring the world back to life It suggests that poetry is also dying It suggests that the speaker is distrustful of poetry It suggests that classical poetry is no longer important 12 Which of the following best describes why Hardy may have written the thrush as "frail, gaunt, and small"? The malicious natural world always betrays heavenly ideals The thrush's song, and not its body, is what carries a possibility of hope The thrush ultimately fails to break through the gloom of the poem The speaker cannot perceive what the thrush really looks like 13 Which of the following is NOT an example of visual imagery? "weakening eye of day" "the cloudy canopy" "The bleak twigs overhead" "wind his death-lament" 14 What does "a full-hearted evensong" allude to? Christian church Archetypal birdsong Popular music Greco-Roman music 15 Which of the following best describes the speaker or narrator of "The Darkling Thrush"? Third-person limited First-person omniscient Third-person omniscient First-person limited 16 What is the importance of Hardy's allusion to Keats in "The Darkling Thrush"? "The Darkling Thrush" challenges Keats's dismissal of the manmade world "The Darkling Thrush" challenges Keats's Romantic depiction of nature in "Ode to a Nightingale" "The Darkling Thrush" was widely regarded as plagiarism of Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" "The Darkling Thrush" builds on on Keats's Romantic depiction of nature in "Ode to a Nightingale" 17 Which of the following best approximates the meaning of the "pulse of germ and birth" in line 13? The cycle of potential and birth The cycle of sickness and healing The cycle of sadness and joy The cycle of decay and rejuvenation 18 Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia? "cause for carolings" "dregs made desolate" "such ecstatic sound" "blast-beruffled" 19 What is being compared in lines 8-9? The land and a funeral The land and a grave The land and a resurrection The land and a corpse 20 Which line does "the bleak twigs overhead" refer back to most explicitly? Line 5 Line 14 Line 6 Line 3 21 Which of the following is a unique thematic connection between line 6 and line 27? Both refer back to the poetic process Both suggest that no song could be enough to bring hope Both describe the desolation of the earth Both are allusions to past poetic traditions 22 In what year was "The Darkling Thrush" published? 1899 1902 1900 1910 23 Which of the following is NOT a significance of the word "darkling" in the title of the poem? It alludes to Keats It suggests that the thrush is dark in color It alludes to Milton It suggests that the thrush is enveloped by the dark 24 Which of the following best expresses the speaker's attitude towards rural places? Mourning Frustration Indifference Yearning 25 What is the significance of the numerous allusions in "The Darkling Thrush"? Hardy is suggesting that poetry should not strive to be creative Hardy is suggesting that his work is superior to any past poetic interpretation of birdsong Hardy is suggesting that the thrush's song isn't actually exciting Hardy is suggesting that the past is present in poetry as it is in the world
