This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Emily Dickinson > Emily Dickinson – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Emily Dickinson Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Emily Dickinson married, but never had children. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. "Oppresses" A) Weighs heavily on the mind. B) Provides great freedom. C) Inflicts physical pain. D) Transfers power. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weighs heavily on the mind. 3. How many Stanzas are in this Emily Dickinson poem? Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. A) 3. B) 1. C) 12. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 4. The point of view of the poem is A) First Person. B) Third Person Limited. C) Third Person Omniscient. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First Person. 5. What does the word "gale" mean in following line?"And sweetest in the gale is heard" A) A bird. B) A very strong wind. C) Sunshine. D) Feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A very strong wind. 6. Dickinson preferred this punctuation above all others A) Period. B) Question mark. C) Comma. D) Dash. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dash. 7. What does the bird symbolize in the poem? A) Freedom and escape. B) Love and affection. C) Fear and danger. D) Loneliness and isolation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Freedom and escape. 8. What was a common theme or subject that both Dickinson and Whitman wrote about A) Love. B) Nature. C) Death. D) God. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature. 9. What is meant by the following line? "recovered the land" A) They built new land. B) They discovered new land. C) They lost the land. D) They survived the shipwreck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They survived the shipwreck. 10. All of the following are civilians EXCEPT A) Hair dresser. B) Middle school student. C) Primary student. D) Soldier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soldier. 11. The poet uses the words "gale" and "storm" as metaphors. What might these words represent? A) Hard or painful times. B) Pleasant times. C) Times of bad weather. D) Times of success and growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hard or painful times. 12. Her attitude, lack of studying and talking in class led to the to ..... of the student's grades. A) Withdraw. B) Apparent. C) Duplicate. D) Undoing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Undoing. 13. Which of the following facts is true about Emily's educational background? A) She didn't study anywhere. She was self-taught. B) She attended different courses at AMHERST Academy. C) She only studied English and Literature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She attended different courses at AMHERST Academy. 14. What image from the poem suggests a person becoming old and dying? A) Children at recess. B) Swelling ground. C) The setting sun. D) Fields of grain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The setting sun. 15. Whom does the word "we" in this poem refer to? A) The Speaker. B) Death and Immortality. C) The Speaker and Death. D) The Speaker, Death, and Immortality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Speaker, Death, and Immortality. 16. Choose the rhyme scheme for the first two stanzas of the poem "Because I could not stop for Death." A) Stanza 1:a, b, c, dStanza 2:d, e, f, b. B) Stanza 1:a, b, c, bStanza 2:d, e, a, b. C) Stanza 1:a, b, a, bStanza 2:d, b, f, b. D) Stanza 1:a, b, c, bStanza 2:d, e, f, b. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza 1:a, b, c, bStanza 2:d, e, f, b. 17. True or False. Dickinson self published her poetry. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. In "The Soul selects her own Society-, " which two words are concrete nouns that help readers experience the Soul's withdrawal? A) "Nation" and "One". B) "Nation" and "Attention". C) "Valves" and "Stone". D) "Attention" and "Stone". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Valves" and "Stone". 19. The number of elephants that can fit in a boxcar on top of a roof depends on A) Undoing. B) Capacity. C) Keen. D) Vast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capacity. 20. In what year was Emily Dickinson born? A) 1800. B) 1830. C) 1850. D) 1886. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1830. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPoets QuizzesEmily Dickinson Quiz 1Emily Dickinson Quiz 2Emily Dickinson Quiz 4Emily Dickinson Quiz 5Emily Dickinson Quiz 6Emily Dickinson Quiz 7Emily Dickinson Quiz 8Emily Dickinson Quiz 9Emily Dickinson Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books