Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

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

The Civil War

Puritan values

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

A blizzard

A beehive

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

Susan Gilbert

Austin Dickinson

Samuel Bowles
4 Where did Dickinson's poems NOT appear in her lifetime?
The Amherst Review

Brooklyn Daily Union

Drum Beat

Springfield Republican
5 Which of these lines contains alliteration?
"Wild nights - Wild nights!"

"Might I but moor - tonight -"

"Done with the Chart!"

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

Single word lines

Free verse

Dashes
7 What best describes the mood of the poem?
Woeful

Turbulent

Jealous

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

Samuel Bowles

Louisa May Alcott

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

It doesn't have one

ABCB

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Lavinia Dickinson and Susan Gilbert

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
11 What image does Dickinson use to imagine the union of the speaker and their love interest?
A bee flying to a flower

A ship coming to port

A bird returning to its nest

Waves on a shoreline
12 How does the speaker characterize their affection?
Serene and complacent

Stormy and urgent

Aloof and fickle

Unwavering and dull
13 When was the first edition of Dickinson's complete works published?
1971

1955

1868

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?
Twelve

Five

Three

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

Octaves

Couplets

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

The novel East of Eden

Eden, Maryland

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden
18 Who is the poem addressed to?
The speaker's mother

Samuel Bowles

The speaker's beloved

Lavinia Dickinson
19 What does the word "port" mean in the context of the poem?
A harbor or dock

A lighthouse

A window on a ship

A compass
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 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

Synecdoche

Simile
23 When was the first volume of Dickinson's poetry published?
1861

1868

1889

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

Slant rhyme

Capitalization

Stream of consciousness
25 How does the poem configure its idea of romance?
As something uncontrollable and frightening

As something simple and comfortable

As something polite and inoffensive

As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

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