Train Journey Quizzes

1 Which collection was "Train Journey" published in?

The Moving Image in 1946

Woman to Man in 1949

The Gateway in 1953

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

The sky

The train

The moon

The land and the trees
3 What is the form?

Blank verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Blank verse, resembles an English sonnet

Free verse, resembles a Petrarchan sonnet

Free 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 is in free verse

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

The speaker is angry that the moon is too bright.

The speaker expresses love for nature.

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 body of a woman and the figure of a mother.

The land is a sentient being who hates humans.

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

Inviting

Logical

Relaxed

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

from which I was born

from which I come from

that broke my heart

that built my heart
9 Define "glassed"

To be observing

Enclosed

Attacked

Altered
10 How is the train described?

as an animal traveling north with guns

confused hammering dark

cold

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

Moonlight

Sunlight

Starlight

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

dry flight

poetry moved

barren height

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

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 same consonant sounds in a line of text.
14 Define "crosswise"

the wisdom that comes from anger

diagonally or transversely.

a Christian cross

an argument
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

Crosswise currents

The ability to dance

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

Asleep and dreaming.

Awake but in an altered state.
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.

Nothing will happen.

The trees will reanimate themselves.

The trees will exist in another dimension.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?

dreamlike, consciouss

mysteriously, purposeful

divinely, serenely

articulate, sharp, and purposeful
22 What famous Australian poem is alluded to in "Train Journey"?

Banjo Paterson's "Clancy of the Overflow"

Kenneth Slessor's "Five Bells"

Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country"

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

a slender dance

dry flight

crosswise currents

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 drives the train.

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

Semi colon

Parenthesis

Exclamation

Ellipses

Train Journey

by Judith Wright

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