Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quizzes

Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Quiz

1 What is the poem's central topic?

Puritan values

Shipbuilding

The Civil War

Romantic passion
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

Susan Gilbert

Austin Dickinson

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

Drum Beat

Springfield Republican

The Amherst Review

Brooklyn Daily Union
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?

Free verse

Dashes

Single word lines

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

Jealous

Woeful

Turbulent

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

Susan Gilbert

Sylvia Plath

Samuel Bowles

Louisa May Alcott
9 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It doesn't have one

ABCB

ABAB

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

Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Lavinia Dickinson and Susan Gilbert
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

A bird returning to its nest

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

Stormy and urgent

Unwavering and dull

Serene and complacent

Aloof and fickle
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 contentious to be skirted around

As something shameful to be hidden

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

Five

Twelve

Three

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

Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets

Monostiches
17 What does the line "Rowing in Eden -" reference?

The biblical garden of Eden

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden

The novel East of Eden

Eden, Maryland
18 Who is the poem addressed to?

The speaker's beloved

The speaker's mother

Samuel Bowles

Lavinia Dickinson
19 What does the word "port" mean in the context of the poem?

A compass

A window on a ship

A harbor or dock

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

Cautious and concerned

Unstoppable and determined

Wavering and uncertain

Frightened and dissuaded
21 How does the word "tonight" function in the last stanza?

As a passionate interjection

As a grim foreshadowing

As an ironic aside

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

Synecdoche

Hyperbole

Zeugma

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

1861

1868

1889

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

Capitalization

Dashes

Stream of consciousness

Slant rhyme
25 How does the poem configure its idea of romance?

As something simple and comfortable

As something polite and inoffensive

As something uncontrollable and frightening

As something inseparable from wildness and tumult

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