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?
A blizzard

A beehive

An erupting volcano

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

Austin Dickinson

Susan Gilbert

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

Springfield Republican

Brooklyn Daily Union

Drum Beat
5 Which of these lines contains alliteration?
"Might I but moor - tonight -"

"Done with the Chart!"

"Wild nights - Wild nights!"

"Futile - the winds -"
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

Jealous

Reserved

Woeful
8 Whose dedication was erased from Dickinson's poems when they were first published?
Louisa May Alcott

Sylvia Plath

Samuel Bowles

Susan Gilbert
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?
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

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

Waves on a shoreline

A bird returning to its nest

A ship coming to port
12 How does the speaker characterize their affection?
Serene and complacent

Unwavering and dull

Aloof and fickle

Stormy and urgent
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 shameful to be hidden

As something contentious to be skirted around

As something luxurious to be shared

As something dangerous to be avoided
15 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Four

Five

Twelve

Three
16 What kind of stanzas is the poem made up of?
Couplets

Octaves

Monostiches

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

The novel East of Eden

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden

Eden, Maryland
18 Who is the poem addressed to?
Samuel Bowles

Lavinia Dickinson

The speaker's mother

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

A harbor or dock

A window on a ship

A lighthouse
20 How does the speaker imagine feeling during their quest?
Cautious and concerned

Wavering and uncertain

Frightened and dissuaded

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

As a passionate interjection

As a grim foreshadowing

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

Zeugma

Synecdoche

Simile
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

Capitalization

Stream of consciousness

Dashes
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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