Train Journey Quizzes

Train Journey Quiz

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?
Woman to Man in 1949

The Moving Image in 1946

The Gateway in 1953

Born of the Conquerors in 1991
2 What gets personified in the poem?
The sky

The moon

The land and the trees

The train
3 What is the form?
Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

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

The poem has slant rhymes

The poem has an extra couplet

The poem has fourteen lines
5 In subject matter, how does "Train Journey" resemble a sonnet?
The speaker expresses love for nature.

The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.

The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.
6 What is the land compared to?
The land is a sentient being who hates humans.

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.

The body of a woman and the figure of a mother.

The land is the speaker's mother.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?
Inviting

Relaxed

Logical

Dreamlike
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"
from which I was born

that broke my heart

that built my heart

from which I come from
9 Define "glassed"
Attacked

Enclosed

To be observing

Altered
10 How is the train described?
as an animal traveling north with guns

the barren height

cold

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

Moonlight

Starlight

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

dry flight

poetry moved

box-tree
13 What is assonance?
A tool of figurative language where an image, idea, object or symbol is used to represent something other than its literal meaning

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

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

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
14 Define "crosswise"
diagonally or transversely.

the wisdom that comes from anger

a Christian cross

an argument
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?
Third-person

First-person

First and second-person

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

Bosses, Instructs

Asks, Implores

Begs, Yells
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?
Crosswise currents

Cold sheets

Breath of dew

The ability to dance
18 Is the speaker awake or asleep in this poem?
Asleep and dreaming.

Awake but in an altered state.

Unspecified

At first, the speaker is somewhere in between sleep and wakefulness. Towards the end of the poem she apparently wakes up.
19 How does the speaker convey concern for the environment?
By intimately addressing the land and urging the trees to claim their strength.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

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 exist in another dimension.

The trees will reanimate themselves.

Nothing will happen.

The trees will die.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?
mysteriously, purposeful

dreamlike, consciouss

divinely, serenely

articulate, sharp, and purposeful
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?
Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"
23 Which is an example of alliteration?
barren height

a slender dance

crosswise currents

dry flight
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 drives the train.

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

Ellipses

Parenthesis

Exclamation

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