Emily Dickinson's Poem Quiz 1

Many of Dickinson's poems were written in quatrains, stanzas of _____ lines each

• 4

• 8

• 10

• 3

Who shuts the door in "The Soul selects her own Society"?

• the Chariots

• her divine Majority

• the Emperor

• the Soul

In the last lines of "The Soul selects her own Society," the simile "close the Valves of her attention- /Like Store-" conveys a sense of

• divinity

• boredom

• permanence

• enthusiasm

In lines 5-8 of "Because I could not stop for Death," Dickinson writes, "We slowly drove - He knew no haste / And I had put away / My labor and my leisure too, / For his Civility." Here her tone conveys an image of death as

• eternal

• dull

• tragic

• peaceful

Which of the following best describes death in "Because I could not stop for Death"?

• a courteous friend

• a field of grain

• a brooding master

• a gossamer gown

Lines 9-12 of "Because I could not stop for Death" present images of schoolchildren, fields of grain, and a sunset to suggest the

• progression from childhood to ripeness to death

• passage into the darkness of eternity and then on to immortality

• interdependence of sunlight, food crops, and children

• relativity of time and its incessant passage toward eternity

According to "Much Madness is divinest Sense," people are "handled with a Chain" when they

• prevail over the majority

• become part of the majority

• think independently

• pose a danger to themselves and others

In "Much Madness is divinest Sense," the word Chain connotes

• restraint

• insanity

• sense

• danger

The theme of "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" is that people are wise to convey the truth

• dishonestly

• indirectly

• when it benefits them

• at an angle