Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

1 What is the poem's central topic?

Shipbuilding

Romantic passion

Puritan values

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

A blizzard

An erupting volcano

The ocean

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

Susan Gilbert

Lavinia Dickinson

Samuel Bowles

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

The Amherst Review

Drum Beat

Brooklyn Daily Union

Springfield Republican
5 Which of these lines contains alliteration?

"Futile - the winds -"

"Done with the Chart!"

"Might I but moor - tonight -"

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

Free verse

Rhyme royal

Single word lines

Dashes
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?

Susan Gilbert

Sylvia Plath

Louisa May Alcott

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

ABAB

It doesn't have one

ABBA

ABCB
10 Who published Dickinson's poems after her death?

Lavinia Dickinson and Susan Gilbert

Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

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

Waves on a shoreline

A bird returning to its nest

A ship coming to port

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

Unwavering and dull

Stormy and urgent

Aloof and fickle

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

1868

1955

1891

1971
14 How does the speaker describe the "wild nights" referenced in the title?

As something luxurious to be shared

As something dangerous to be avoided

As something contentious to be skirted around

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

Twelve

Four

Three

Five
16 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?

Quatrains

Octaves

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?

The speaker's beloved

Lavinia Dickinson

Samuel Bowles

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

A lighthouse

A window on a ship

A harbor or dock

A compass
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 a grim foreshadowing

As a joke

As an ironic aside

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

Hyperbole

Simile

Synecdoche

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

1889

1861

1868

1890
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 simple and comfortable

As something uncontrollable and frightening

As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

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