The Listeners Quiz

Who is the author of 'The Listeners'?

• Walter de la Mare

• Oscar Wilde

• Valerie Bloom

• Marta Salinas

Who is knocking on the door?

• The Listener

• The Traveler

• The King

• The Queen

What is a phantom?

• A man

• A ghost

• A Baby

What is the literary device in "forest's ferny floor"

• Repetition

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

What is the meaning of the word "thronging"?

• Confused

• Outskirts

• Crowding

• Knocking

What is the mood of the poem?

• Eerie or Spooky

• Exciting

• Happy and relaxed

• Melancholy

Where is the setting of the poem?

• Near a pond where many animals were frolicking.

• A moonlit evening at a dwelling in a forest.

• A small cabin by the beach.

• At the top of a tower, overlooking a barren land.

The climax of this narrative poem is probably when...

• The bird flies out of the turret above the traveller's head.

• The silence returns to the house because the traveller has departed.

• The traveller yells out, "Tell them I came, and no one answered, that I kept my word!"

• The horse chomps on the ferny ground.

The traveler had come to the house because...

• his horse had brought him there.

• he was fulfilling a promise

• he had to take something he had left behind

• he was lost

What is the meaning of the word "Hearkening?"

• confused

• listening attentively

• breathing quickly

• crowding