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 moon

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

Free verse, resembles an English 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 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 a sentient being who hates humans.

The land is the speaker's mother.

The land is compared to a hostile attacker.

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

Inviting

Relaxed

Logical
8 Finish this quote: "your delicate dry breasts, country___"
that built my heart

that broke my heart

from which I come from

from which I was born
9 Define "glassed"
Altered

Attacked

Enclosed

To be observing
10 How is the train described?
as an animal traveling north with guns

cold

confused hammering dark

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?
poetry moved

barren height

box-tree

dry flight
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"
a Christian cross

an argument

the wisdom that comes from anger

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

First-person

First and second-person

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

Begs, Yells

Instructs, Beseeches

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

Crosswise currents

The ability to dance

Breath of dew
18 Is the speaker awake or asleep in this poem?
Asleep and dreaming.

Awake but in an altered state.

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

Unspecified
19 How does the speaker convey concern for the environment?
By criticizing human activity that has led to drought.

By praying for the survival of flora and fauna.

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

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 die.

The trees will reanimate themselves.

Nothing will happen.
21 How does poetry ideally move, according to this poem?
articulate, sharp, and purposeful

dreamlike, consciouss

mysteriously, purposeful

divinely, serenely
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

dry flight

a slender dance

barren height
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 train.

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

Semi colon

Parenthesis

Exclamation

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