Train Journey Quizzes

Train Journey Quiz

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 sky

The land and the trees
3 What is the form?
Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Free verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet
4 How is the poem different than a sonnet?
The poem has slant rhymes

The poem has fourteen lines

The poem has an extra couplet

The poem is in free verse
5 In subject matter, how does "Train Journey" resemble a sonnet?
The speaker has a complicated relationship with her mother.

The speaker is tortured because she cannot sleep.

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

The speaker expresses love for nature.
6 What is the land compared to?
The land is compared to a hostile attacker.

The land is the speaker's mother.

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

The land is a sentient being who hates humans.
7 Which best describes the atmosphere in the poem?
Dreamlike

Inviting

Relaxed

Logical
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"
from which I come from

that built my heart

from which I was born

that broke my heart
9 Define "glassed"
To be observing

Altered

Attacked

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

cold

the barren height

confused hammering dark
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?
The train's lights

Sunlight

Moonlight

Starlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?
barren height

box-tree

poetry moved

dry flight
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

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.
14 Define "crosswise"
a Christian cross

the wisdom that comes from anger

an argument

diagonally or transversely.
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?
First-person

Omniscient third-person

Third-person

First and second-person
16 Which words best describe the way the speaker addresses the trees?
Asks, Implores

Bosses, Instructs

Begs, Yells

Instructs, Beseeches
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?
Breath of dew

Cold sheets

The ability to dance

Crosswise currents
18 Is the speaker awake or asleep in this poem?
Asleep and dreaming.

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

Awake but in an altered state.

Unspecified
19 How does the speaker convey concern for the environment?
By telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

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

The trees will reanimate themselves.

Nothing will happen.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?
dreamlike, consciouss

divinely, serenely

articulate, sharp, and purposeful

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

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Henry Lawson's "Up the Country"

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

barren height

dry flight

a slender dance
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?
The speaker drives the train.

The speaker observes the train.

The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.
25 What device helps convey the process of the speaker gradually waking up?
Ellipses

Parenthesis

Exclamation

Semi colon

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