Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

1 What is the poem's central topic?
Romantic passion

Puritan values

Shipbuilding

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

The ocean

An erupting volcano

A beehive
3 Who discovered Dickinson's poems after her death?
Susan Gilbert

Samuel Bowles

Lavinia Dickinson

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

The Amherst Review

Drum Beat

Brooklyn Daily Union
5 Which of these lines contains alliteration?
"Wild nights - Wild nights!"

"Futile - the winds -"

"Might I but moor - tonight -"

"Done with the Chart!"
6 Which of the following structural features does Dickinson make frequent use of in the poem?
Free verse

Dashes

Rhyme royal

Single word lines
7 What best describes the mood of the poem?
Woeful

Reserved

Jealous

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

Louisa May Alcott

Susan Gilbert

Samuel Bowles
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABCB

It doesn't have one

ABBA

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Lavinia Dickinson and Susan Gilbert
11 What image does Dickinson use to imagine the union of the speaker and their love interest?
A bird returning to its nest

A ship coming to port

A bee flying to a flower

Waves on a shoreline
12 How does the speaker characterize their affection?
Aloof and fickle

Stormy and urgent

Unwavering and dull

Serene and complacent
13 When was the first edition of Dickinson's complete works published?
1868

1955

1971

1891
14 How does the speaker describe the "wild nights" referenced in the title?
As something shameful to be hidden

As something luxurious to be shared

As something contentious to be skirted around

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

Four

Five

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

Octaves

Couplets

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

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden

The biblical garden of Eden

Eden, Maryland
18 Who is the poem addressed to?
The speaker's mother

Samuel Bowles

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?
Frightened and dissuaded

Wavering and uncertain

Unstoppable and determined

Cautious and concerned
21 How does the word "tonight" function in the last stanza?
As a joke

As an ironic aside

As a passionate interjection

As a grim foreshadowing
22 The lines "Futile - the winds - / To a Heart in port -" are an example of which of the following?
Simile

Hyperbole

Synecdoche

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

1889

1868

1861
24 Which of the following stylistic elements was Dickinson NOT prominently known for?
Stream of consciousness

Dashes

Capitalization

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

As something simple and comfortable

As something uncontrollable and frightening

As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

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