Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

1 What is the poem's central topic?
Shipbuilding

Puritan values

The Civil War

Romantic passion
2 What image from nature does the poem utilize?
The ocean

A blizzard

An erupting volcano

A beehive
3 Who discovered Dickinson's poems after her death?
Samuel Bowles

Lavinia Dickinson

Susan Gilbert

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

Brooklyn Daily Union

The Amherst Review

Drum Beat
5 Which of these lines contains alliteration?
"Done with the Chart!"

"Wild nights - Wild nights!"

"Futile - the winds -"

"Might I but moor - tonight -"
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?
Woeful

Reserved

Turbulent

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

Louisa May Alcott

Samuel Bowles

Susan Gilbert
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA

ABCB

It doesn't have one

ABAB
10 Who published Dickinson's poems after her death?
Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

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 ship coming to port

A bird returning to its nest

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

Serene and complacent

Unwavering and dull

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

1891

1868

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

As something contentious to be skirted around

As something shameful to be hidden

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

Three

Four

Twelve
16 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Quatrains

Octaves

Monostiches

Couplets
17 What does the line "Rowing in Eden -" reference?
The novel East of Eden

The biblical garden of Eden

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden

Eden, Maryland
18 Who is the poem addressed to?
Lavinia Dickinson

Samuel Bowles

The speaker's beloved

The speaker's mother
19 What does the word "port" mean in the context of the poem?
A compass

A window on a ship

A harbor or dock

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

Frightened and dissuaded

Unstoppable and determined

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

As a joke

As a passionate interjection

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

Hyperbole

Simile

Synecdoche
23 When was the first volume of Dickinson's poetry published?
1868

1889

1861

1890
24 Which of the following stylistic elements was Dickinson NOT prominently known for?
Slant rhyme

Stream of consciousness

Capitalization

Dashes
25 How does the poem configure its idea of romance?
As something polite and inoffensive

As something uncontrollable and frightening

As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

As something simple and comfortable

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