Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

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

The Civil War

Romantic passion

Shipbuilding
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

Samuel Bowles

Lavinia Dickinson

Susan Gilbert
4 Where did Dickinson's poems NOT appear in her lifetime?
Drum Beat

Springfield Republican

Brooklyn Daily Union

The Amherst Review
5 Which of these lines contains alliteration?
"Futile - the winds -"

"Wild nights - Wild nights!"

"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

Single word lines

Rhyme royal

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?
Samuel Bowles

Sylvia Plath

Susan Gilbert

Louisa May Alcott
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It doesn't have one

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB
10 Who published Dickinson's poems after her death?
Lavinia Dickinson and Susan Gilbert

Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
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?
Unwavering and dull

Stormy and urgent

Serene and complacent

Aloof and fickle
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 dangerous to be avoided

As something luxurious to be shared

As something contentious to be skirted around
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five

Twelve

Three

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

Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets
17 What does the line "Rowing in Eden -" reference?
Eden, Maryland

The biblical garden of Eden

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden

The novel East of Eden
18 Who is the poem addressed to?
Lavinia Dickinson

The speaker's beloved

The speaker's mother

Samuel Bowles
19 What does the word "port" mean in the context of the poem?
A window on a ship

A lighthouse

A harbor or dock

A compass
20 How does the speaker imagine feeling during their quest?
Unstoppable and determined

Cautious and concerned

Wavering and uncertain

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

As a joke

As a grim foreshadowing

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

Hyperbole

Simile

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

1889

1890

1868
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 simple and comfortable

As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

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