This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > American Poetry – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Poetry Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. As it's used, what is the most likely meaning of musings? She has a voice of gladness, and a smileAnd eloquence of beauty; and she glidesInto his darker musings, with a mildAnd healing sympathy that steals away A) Reflections or deep thoughts. B) Burial place or burial chamber. C) Amusement or merriment. D) Close relationship with someone or something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reflections or deep thoughts. 2. How does Jane Hirshfield address the connection between nature and spirituality in her poetry? A) Through a celebration of beauty despite suffering . B) Through an exploration of identity and connection with nature. C) With a reverence for nature and a Buddhist sensitivity to impermanence. D) Through vivid sensory images and intensely personal lyrical poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With a reverence for nature and a Buddhist sensitivity to impermanence. 3. Which one is the odd one out? A) Abolitionist. B) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. C) John Greenleaf Whittier. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 4. Which of the following figurative language is used with the following sentence, "Life is a barren field?" A) Idiom. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 5. What poetic technique does Henry Wadsworth Longfellow use in this excerpt from the poem "The Day Is Done" ? The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. A) Assonance. B) Enjambment. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 6. Which term means control or rule? A) Clime. B) Sway. C) Sanction. D) Strain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sway. 7. Which term means feel or express strong disapproval? A) Deplore. B) Outvie. C) Rove. D) Sanction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deplore. 8. What influences are reflected in Jane Hirshfield's poetry? A) Influences of Buddhism and Japanese court poetry. B) Influences of Latin American surrealism and spiritual consciousness. C) Influences of the romantic movement and the classical tradition. D) Influences of confessional poetry and contemporary narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Influences of Buddhism and Japanese court poetry. 9. What is the supreme law of the U.S.? A) Bill of RIghts. B) The People. C) The President. D) Declaration of Independence. E) U.S. Constitution. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) U.S. Constitution. 10. In this excerpt from the poem "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant, what is the meaning of the word swain? Thine individual being, shalt thou goTo mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rockAnd to the sluggish clod, which the rude swainTurns with his share, and treads upon. The oakShall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold. A) A young vineyard worker. B) A young boy who hunts wild animals. C) A young shepherd or country boy. D) An unpleasant person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A young shepherd or country boy. 11. A comparison between 2 unlike objects USING "like" or "as." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 12. Who is known as the father of American Poetry? A) Wallace Stevens. B) Walt Whitman. C) Allan Poe. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walt Whitman. 13. Which of our authors was a prisoner of war? A) Wheatley. B) Freneau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Freneau. 14. What is an example of a positive tone? A) Pessimistic. B) Hopeful. C) Critical. D) Concerned. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hopeful. 15. Which of our authors was college educated? A) Wheatley. B) Freneau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Freneau. 16. What poetic style is exemplified in the following passage? There is a quiet spirit in these woods, That dwells where'er the gentle south-wind blows;Where, underneath the white-thorn, in the glade, The wild flowers bloom, or, kissing the soft air, The leaves above their sunny palms outspread.(from "The Spirit of Poetry" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) A) Blank verse. B) Enjambment. C) Iambic pentameter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 17. Which term means official permission or approval? A) Deplore. B) Sway. C) Sanction. D) Despotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sanction. 18. "And that has made all the difference" .Who wrote this? A) Robert Frost. B) Walt Whitman. C) Shakespeare. D) Ezra Pound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Frost. 19. Which of our authors never became a parent? A) Wheatley. B) Freneau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wheatley. 20. As it's used, what is the most likely meaning of mirth? Plod on, and each one as before will chaseHis favorite phantom; yet all these shall leaveTheir mirth and their employments, and shall comeAnd make their bed with thee. As the long train A) Reflection or deep thought. B) Burial place or burial chamber. C) Amusement or merriment. D) Close relationship with someone or something. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amusement or merriment. Next →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesAmerican Poetry Quiz 2American Poetry Quiz 3Metaphysical Poetry QuizPoetry Terms QuizPoetry QuizProsody QuizRomantic Poetry QuizShakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books