Train Journey Quizzes

Train Journey Quiz

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?
The Moving Image in 1946

Born of the Conquerors in 1991

The Gateway in 1953

Woman to Man in 1949
2 What gets personified in the poem?
The land and the trees

The train

The sky

The moon
3 What is the form?
Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Free verse, resembles an English sonnet

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

The poem has an extra couplet

The poem has slant rhymes

The poem is in free verse
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 the speaker's mother.

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.

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___"
from which I come from

from which I was born

that broke my heart

that built my heart
9 Define "glassed"
Enclosed

Altered

Attacked

To be observing
10 How is the train described?
cold

confused hammering dark

as an animal traveling north with guns

the barren height
11 What allows the speaker to observe the surrounding landscape?
Sunlight

Starlight

The train's lights

Moonlight
12 Which is an example of assonance?
dry flight

barren height

poetry moved

box-tree
13 What is assonance?
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

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"
an argument

a Christian cross

diagonally or transversely.

the wisdom that comes from anger
15 Which perspective is the poem written in?
First-person

Third-person

First and second-person

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

Instructs, Beseeches

Asks, Implores

Bosses, Instructs
17 What does the speaker tell the trees to draw from the darkness?
Cold sheets

Crosswise currents

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 telling the trees they should grow in order for humans to use their wood.

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

By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.
20 What will happen if the trees "Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew"?
The trees will exist in another dimension.

Nothing will happen.

The trees will reanimate themselves.

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

articulate, sharp, and purposeful

divinely, serenely

mysteriously, purposeful
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?
Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"

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

barren height

crosswise currents

dry flight
24 What is the speaker's role in the poem?
The speaker drives the train.

The speaker is the vessel through which Nature communicates

The speaker observes the landscape and responds to it.

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

Exclamation

Ellipses

Parenthesis

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