Emily Dickinson Quiz

Who is the poet discussed in the passage?

• Emily Brontë

• Emily Dickinson

• Emily St. Vincent Millay

• Emily Browning

In what year was Emily Dickinson born?

• 1800

• 1830

• 1850

• 1886

How many poems did Emily Dickinson write?

• One thousand

• nearly two thousand

• Three thousand

• Four thousand

What is mentioned as Emily Dickinson's unique voice in her poetry?

• Melancholy

• Lyrical intensity

• Romanticism

• Satire

In which state was Emily Dickinson born?

• New York

• Massachusetts

• Vermont

• Connecticut

At what age did Emily Dickinson become increasingly reclusive?

• Twenty

• Thirty

• Forty

• Fifty

How did Emily Dickinson mainly communicate with friends and family?

• Social media

• In-person meetings

• Through letters

• Phone calls

Who was the influential literary critic to whom Emily Dickinson sent her poems in 1862?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Emily Brontë

• Thomas Wentworth Higginson

What did Emily Dickinson ask Thomas Wentworth Higginson in the card accompanying her poems?

• If he liked her handwriting

• If he thought her poems were alive

• If he could publish her poems

• If he wanted to meet in person

What did Emily Dickinson's sister, Lavinia, find after her death?

• A collection of paintings

• Her diary

• More than one thousand poems

• Manuscripts of novels