Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

1 What is the poem's central topic?
Shipbuilding

Romantic passion

Puritan values

The Civil War
2 What image from nature does the poem utilize?
A beehive

A blizzard

An erupting volcano

The ocean
3 Who discovered Dickinson's poems after her death?
Susan Gilbert

Austin Dickinson

Lavinia Dickinson

Samuel Bowles
4 Where did Dickinson's poems NOT appear in her lifetime?
Springfield Republican

Drum Beat

The Amherst Review

Brooklyn Daily Union
5 Which of these lines contains alliteration?
"Might I but moor - tonight -"

"Wild nights - Wild nights!"

"Done with the Chart!"

"Futile - the winds -"
6 Which of the following structural features does Dickinson make frequent use of in the poem?
Dashes

Rhyme royal

Single word lines

Free verse
7 What best describes the mood of the poem?
Reserved

Turbulent

Woeful

Jealous
8 Whose dedication was erased from Dickinson's poems when they were first published?
Susan Gilbert

Louisa May Alcott

Samuel Bowles

Sylvia Plath
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA

It doesn't have one

ABAB

ABCB
10 Who published Dickinson's poems after her death?
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

Lavinia Dickinson and Susan Gilbert
11 What image does Dickinson use to imagine the union of the speaker and their love interest?
Waves on a shoreline

A bird returning to its nest

A ship coming to port

A bee flying to a flower
12 How does the speaker characterize their affection?
Serene and complacent

Stormy and urgent

Unwavering and dull

Aloof and fickle
13 When was the first edition of Dickinson's complete works published?
1955

1868

1891

1971
14 How does the speaker describe the "wild nights" referenced in the title?
As something shameful to be hidden

As something contentious to be skirted around

As something luxurious to be shared

As something dangerous to be avoided
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five

Twelve

Three

Four
16 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Octaves

Monostiches

Couplets

Quatrains
17 What does the line "Rowing in Eden -" reference?
The biblical garden of Eden

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden

The novel East of Eden

Eden, Maryland
18 Who is the poem addressed to?
Samuel Bowles

The speaker's mother

Lavinia Dickinson

The speaker's beloved
19 What does the word "port" mean in the context of the poem?
A harbor or dock

A compass

A window on a ship

A lighthouse
20 How does the speaker imagine feeling during their quest?
Cautious and concerned

Unstoppable and determined

Frightened and dissuaded

Wavering and uncertain
21 How does the word "tonight" function in the last stanza?
As a grim foreshadowing

As a passionate interjection

As a joke

As an ironic aside
22 The lines "Futile - the winds - / To a Heart in port -" are an example of which of the following?
Zeugma

Simile

Synecdoche

Hyperbole
23 When was the first volume of Dickinson's poetry published?
1890

1861

1868

1889
24 Which of the following stylistic elements was Dickinson NOT prominently known for?
Capitalization

Dashes

Stream of consciousness

Slant rhyme
25 How does the poem configure its idea of romance?
As something simple and comfortable

As something polite and inoffensive

As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

As something uncontrollable and frightening

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