Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

1 What is the poem's central topic?

Romantic passion

The Civil War

Shipbuilding

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

A beehive

The ocean

A blizzard

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?

"Done with the Chart!"

"Might I but moor - tonight -"

"Wild nights - Wild nights!"

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

Single word lines

Free verse

Dashes

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?

Louisa May Alcott

Susan Gilbert

Sylvia Plath

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

ABAB

It doesn't have one

ABCB

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

Lavinia Dickinson and Susan Gilbert

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson
11 What image does Dickinson use to imagine the union of the speaker and their love interest?

A ship coming to port

A bee flying to a flower

Waves on a shoreline

A bird returning to its nest
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?

1955

1971

1891

1868
14 How does the speaker describe the "wild nights" referenced in the title?

As something luxurious to be shared

As something shameful to be hidden

As something dangerous to be avoided

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?

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden

The biblical garden of Eden

Eden, Maryland

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

Samuel Bowles

Lavinia Dickinson

The speaker's beloved

The speaker's mother
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

Frightened and dissuaded

Cautious and concerned

Wavering and uncertain
21 How does the word "tonight" function in the last stanza?

As an ironic aside

As a grim foreshadowing

As a passionate interjection

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

Simile

Synecdoche

Zeugma

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

1868

1861

1889

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

Capitalization

Slant rhyme

Stream of consciousness

Dashes
25 How does the poem configure its idea of romance?

As something simple and comfortable

As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

As something uncontrollable and frightening

As something polite and inoffensive

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