Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

1 What is the poem's central topic?
Shipbuilding

The Civil War

Romantic passion

Puritan values
2 What image from nature does the poem utilize?
A blizzard

The ocean

A beehive

An erupting volcano
3 Who discovered Dickinson's poems after her death?
Austin Dickinson

Lavinia Dickinson

Samuel Bowles

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

The Amherst Review

Brooklyn Daily Union

Drum Beat
5 Which of these lines contains alliteration?
"Wild nights - Wild nights!"

"Might I but moor - tonight -"

"Futile - the winds -"

"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?
Turbulent

Reserved

Jealous

Woeful
8 Whose dedication was erased from Dickinson's poems when they were first published?
Samuel Bowles

Louisa May Alcott

Sylvia Plath

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

ABBA

It doesn't have one

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

Lavinia Dickinson and Susan Gilbert

Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
11 What image does Dickinson use to imagine the union of the speaker and their love interest?
A ship coming to port

A bird returning to its nest

Waves on a shoreline

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

Unwavering and dull

Aloof and fickle

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

1971

1955

1891
14 How does the speaker describe the "wild nights" referenced in the title?
As something contentious to be skirted around

As something shameful to be hidden

As something dangerous to be avoided

As something luxurious to be shared
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five

Three

Twelve

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

Quatrains

Monostiches

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

Eden, Maryland

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden

The biblical garden of Eden
18 Who is the poem addressed to?
Samuel Bowles

Lavinia Dickinson

The speaker's mother

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

A window on a ship

A compass

A harbor or dock
20 How does the speaker imagine feeling during their quest?
Unstoppable and determined

Wavering and uncertain

Frightened and dissuaded

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

As a joke

As an ironic aside

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

Synecdoche

Hyperbole

Simile
23 When was the first volume of Dickinson's poetry published?
1889

1890

1861

1868
24 Which of the following stylistic elements was Dickinson NOT prominently known for?
Capitalization

Stream of consciousness

Slant rhyme

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

As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

As something simple and comfortable

As something uncontrollable and frightening

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