Train Journey Quizzes

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?

Born of the Conquerors in 1991

The Moving Image in 1946

The Gateway in 1953

Woman to Man in 1949
2 What gets personified in the poem?

The moon

The train

The land and the trees

The sky
3 What is the form?

Free verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet
4 How is the poem different than a sonnet?

The poem has an extra couplet

The poem is in free verse

The poem has fourteen lines

The poem has slant rhymes
5 In subject matter, how does "Train Journey" resemble a sonnet?

The speaker expresses love for nature.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.
6 What is the land compared to?

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.

The land is the speaker's mother.

The land is a sentient being who hates humans.

The body of a woman and the figure of a mother.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?

Logical

Relaxed

Inviting

Dreamlike
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"

that built my heart

that broke my heart

from which I was born

from which I come from
9 Define "glassed"

Altered

Enclosed

Attacked

To be observing
10 How is the train described?

the barren height

as an animal traveling north with guns

cold

confused hammering dark
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?

Sunlight

Starlight

Moonlight

The train's lights
12 Which is an example of assonance?

poetry moved

dry flight

barren height

box-tree
13 What is assonance?

A common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object

The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.

The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

A tool of figurative language where an image, idea, object or symbol is used to represent something other than its literal meaning
14 Define "crosswise"

the wisdom that comes from anger

diagonally or transversely.

an argument

a Christian cross
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?

Third-person

First and second-person

First-person

Omniscient third-person
16 Which words best describe the way the speaker addresses the trees?

Bosses, Instructs

Begs, Yells

Instructs, Beseeches

Asks, Implores
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?

The ability to dance

Crosswise currents

Breath of dew

Cold sheets
18 Is the speaker awake or asleep in this poem?

At first, the speaker is somewhere in between sleep and wakefulness. Towards the end of the poem she apparently wakes up.

Unspecified

Awake but in an altered state.

Asleep and dreaming.
19 How does the speaker convey concern for the environment?

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

By intimately addressing the land and urging the trees to claim their strength.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

By telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?

The trees will die.

The trees will exist in another dimension.

Nothing will happen.

The trees will reanimate themselves.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?

mysteriously, purposeful

articulate, sharp, and purposeful

divinely, serenely

dreamlike, consciouss
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"
23 Which is an example of alliteration?

crosswise currents

a slender dance

dry flight

barren height
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?

The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

The speaker observes the train.

The speaker drives the train.
25 What device helps convey the process of the speaker gradually waking up?

Parenthesis

Exclamation

Semi colon

Ellipses

Train Journey

by Judith Wright

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