Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

1 What is the poem's central topic?
Puritan values

Romantic passion

The Civil War

Shipbuilding
2 What image from nature does the poem utilize?
A beehive

An erupting volcano

A blizzard

The ocean
3 Who discovered Dickinson's poems after her death?
Samuel Bowles

Austin Dickinson

Susan Gilbert

Lavinia 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?
"Might I but moor - tonight -"

"Futile - the winds -"

"Done with the Chart!"

"Wild nights - Wild nights!"
6 Which of the following structural features does Dickinson make frequent use of in the poem?
Dashes

Single word lines

Free verse

Rhyme royal
7 What best describes the mood of the poem?
Turbulent

Woeful

Reserved

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

Sylvia Plath

Louisa May Alcott

Samuel Bowles
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?
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson

Lavinia Dickinson and Susan Gilbert
11 What image does Dickinson use to imagine the union of the speaker and their love interest?
A bee flying to a flower

A bird returning to its nest

A ship coming to port

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

Aloof and fickle

Unwavering and dull

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

1891

1971

1955
14 How does the speaker describe the "wild nights" referenced in the title?
As something contentious to be skirted around

As something dangerous to be avoided

As something luxurious to be shared

As something shameful to be hidden
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Four

Five

Twelve

Three
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 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

The speaker's mother

The speaker's beloved

Samuel Bowles
19 What does the word "port" mean in the context of the poem?
A compass

A lighthouse

A window on a ship

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

Frightened and dissuaded

Cautious and concerned

Unstoppable and determined
21 How does the word "tonight" function in the last stanza?
As an ironic aside

As a passionate interjection

As a joke

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

Zeugma

Simile

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

1861

1890

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

Dashes

Slant rhyme

Stream of consciousness
25 How does the poem configure its idea of romance?
As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

As something polite and inoffensive

As something simple and comfortable

As something uncontrollable and frightening

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