1. Because I could not stop for Death’ is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems: Series 1 in 1890. Dickinson's work was never authorized to be published so it is unknown whether Because I could not stop for Death was completed or ‘abandoned’. The speaker of Dickinson's poem meets _______
A:) cruel Death
B:) personified Death
C:) immortality
D:) polite death
springline- Correct option: B:) personified Death
2. Death is a gentleman who is riding in the horse carriage that picks up the speaker in the poem and takes the speaker on her journey to the afterlife. According to Thomas H. Johnson's variorum edition of 1955 the number of this poem is _____?
A:) 700
B:) 711
C:) 712
D:) 715
springline- Correct option: C:) 712
3. The poem was published posthumously in 1890 in Poems: Series 1, a collection of Dickinson's poems assembled and edited by her friends Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The poem was published under the title ______ ?
A:) The Chariot
B:) The Hackney
C:) The completed poems
D:) The Immortality
springline- Correct option: A:) The Chariot
4. The poem is composed in six quatrains with the meter alternating between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. Stanzas 1, 2, 4, and 6 employ end rhyme in their second and fourth lines, but some of these are only close rhyme or _______?
A:) feminine rhyme
B:) broken rhyme
C:) internal rhyme
D:) eye rhyme
springline- Correct option: D:) eye rhyme
5. Because I could not stop for Death: In the third stanza, there is no end rhyme, but ‘ring’ in line 2 rhymes with ‘gazing’ and ‘setting’ in lines 3 and 4 respectively. Internal rhyme is scattered throughout. Figures of speech include alliteration, anaphora, personification and____?
A:) simile
B:) paradox
C:) hypberbole
D:) understatement
springline- Correct option: B:) paradox
6. Because I could not stop for Death ;The poem personifies Death as a gentleman caller who takes a leisurely carriage ride with the poet to her grave. She also personifies immortality. The imagery changes from its original nostalgic form of children playing and setting suns to Which is a real concern of taking the speaker to the afterlife ?
A:) memories
B:) soul
C:) death
D:) writings
springline- Correct option: C:) death
7. There are various interpretations of Dickinson's poem surrounding the Christian belief in the afterlife and read the poem as if it were from the perspective of a ‘delayed final reconciliation of the soul with God.’ Dickinson has been classified by critics before as a __________?
A:) metaphysical poet
B:) acrostic poet
C:) aesthetic poet
D:) Christian poet
springline- Correct option: D:) Christian poet
8. Dickinson's tone contributes to the poem as well. In describing a traditionally frightening experience, the process of dying and passing into eternity, she uses a passive and calm tone. Critics attribute the lack of fear in her tone as her acceptance of death as ‘a natural part of the endless cycle of nature,’ due to the certainty in her belief in ________?
A:) Death
B:) Christ
C:) Religious
D:) Superstitious
springline- Correct option: B:) Christ
9. Because I could not stop for Death: The poem has been set to music by Aaron Copland as the twelfth song of his song cycle Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson. And again, by John Adams as the second movement of his choral symphony Harmonium. Who and Susan McKeown have created a song of the same name while preserving Dickinson's exact poem in its lyrics ?
A:) William Austin
B:) Henry James
C:) Natalie Merchant
D:) Edward Dickinson
springline- Correct option: C:) Natalie Merchant
10. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry While Dickinson was a prolific writer, her only publications during her lifetime were 10 of her nearly _____
A:) 1,800 poems
B:) 1,700 poems
C:) 1,850 poems
D:) 2000 poems
springline- Correct option: A:) 1,800 poems
11. Emily's poems were unique for her era. They contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends, and also explore aesthetics, society, nature and______
A:) death
B:) immortality
C:) spirituality
D:) religious
springline- Correct option: C:) spirituality
12. Although Dickinson's acquaintances were most likely aware of her writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Dickinson's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that her work became public. Her first collection of poetry was published in ___
A:) 1890
B:) 1891
C:) 1892
D:) 1893
springline- Correct option: A:) 1890
13. A 1998 article in The New York Times revealed that of the many edits made to Dickinson's work, the name ‘Susan’ was often deliberately removed. At least, How many poems Dickinson were dedicated to sister-in-law Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson?
A:) 10
B:) 11
C:) 12
D:) 15
springline- Correct option: B:) 11
14. Emily Dickinson's paternal grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, was one of the founders of Amherst College. A complete, and mostly unaltered, collection of her poetry became available for the first time when scholar Thomas H. Johnson published The Poems of Emily Dickinson in _____?
A:) 1954
B:) 1955
C:) 1957
D:) 1958
springline- Correct option: B:) 1955
15. By all accounts, young Emily was a well-behaved girl. On an extended visit to Monson when she was two, Emily's Aunt Lavinia described Emily as ‘perfectly well & contented—She is a very good child & but little trouble.’ Emily's aunt also noted the girl's affinity for music and her particular talent for the piano, which she called ______
A:) the strains
B:) the sound
C:) the chords
D:) the moosic
springline- Correct option: D:) the moosic
16. Dickinson spent seven years at the Academy, taking classes in English and classical literature, Latin, botany, geology, history, ‘mental philosophy,’ and arithmetic. Daniel Taggart Fiske, would later recall that Dickinson was ‘very bright’ and ‘an excellent scholar, of exemplary deportment, faithful in all school duties’, who is Daniel Taggart Fiske?
A:) teacher
B:) friend
C:) principal
D:) niece
springline- Correct option: C:) principal
17. When she was eighteen, Dickinson's family befriended a young attorney by the name of Benjamin Franklin Newton. According to a letter written by Dickinson after Newton's death, he had been ‘with my Father two years, before going to Worcester – in pursuing his studies, and was much in our family. Newton likely introduced her to the writings of ______ ?
A:) Robert Frost
B:) John Keats
C:) William Wordsworth
D:) P.B. Shelley
springline- Correct option: C:) William Wordsworth
18. Dickinson was familiar with not only the Bible but also contemporary popular literature. She was probably influenced by Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York, another gift from Whom ?
A:) Susan
B:) Austin
C:) Newton
D:) Sylvia Plath
springline- Correct option: C:) Newton
19. Jane Eyre's influence cannot be measured, but when Dickinson acquired her first and only dog, a Newfoundland, she named him ‘Carlo’ after the character St. John Rivers' dog. Who was also a potent influence in her life?
A:) Wordsworth
B:) Shelley
C:) Byron
D:) Shakespeare
springline- Correct option: D:) Shakespeare
20. The Amherst Academy principal, Leonard Humphrey, died suddenly of ‘brain congestion’ at age 25 .When Dickinson wrote that ‘Amherst is alive with fun this winter ... Oh, a very great town this is!’ Her high spirits soon turned to melancholy after another death?
A:) 1850
B:) 1851
C:) 1852
D:) 1855
springline- Correct option: A:) 1850
21. In the late 1850s, the Dickinsons befriended Samuel Bowles, the owner and editor-in-chief of the Springfield Republican, and his wife, Mary. They visited the Dickinsons regularly for years to come. During this time Emily sent him over three dozen letters and nearly ______
A:) thirty poems
B:) twenty five poems
C:) fifty poems
D:) sixty poems
springline- Correct option: C:) fifty poems
22. The highly nuanced and largely theatrical letter was unsigned, but she had included her name on a card and enclosed it in an envelope, along with four of her poems. Dickinson delighted in dramatic self-characterization and mystery in her letters to _______ ?
A:) Higginson
B:) Austin
C:) Susan
D:) Samuel Bowles
springline- Correct option: A:) Higginson
23. Dickinson found a kindred soul in Lord, especially in terms of shared literary interests; the few letters which survived contain multiple quotations of Shakespeare's work, including the plays Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet and King Learn. When he gave her Cowden Clarke's Complete Concordance to Shakespeare (1877) ?
A:) 1779
B:) 1700
C:) 1880
D:) 1886
springline- Correct option: C:) 1880
24. The 1880s were a difficult time for the remaining Dickinsons. Irreconcilably alienated from his wife, Austin fell in love in 1882 with Mabel Loomis Todd, an Amherst College faculty wife who had recently moved to the area. Todd never met Dickinson but was intrigued by her, referring to her as ‘a lady whom the people call the ______
A:) isolate
B:) mad
C:) Mystery
D:) Myth
springline- Correct option: D:) Myth
25. Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, only ten poems and a letter were published during her lifetime. After her younger sister Lavinia discovered the collection of nearly 1800 poems, Dickinson's first volume was published four years after her death. Until Thomas H. Johnson published Dickinson's _____ ?
A:) selected poems
B:) Letter of Emily
C:) Complete Poems
D:) Favorite poems
springline- Correct option: C:) Complete Poems
26. Dickinson avoids pentameter, opting more generally for trimeter, tetrameter and, less often, dimeter. Dickinson often uses perfect rhymes for lines two and four, she also makes frequent use of _____ ?
A:) slant rhyme
B:) eye rhyme
C:) internal rhyme
D:) feminine rhyme
springline- Correct option: A:) slant rhyme
27. As early as 1891, Who wrote that ‘If nothing else had come out of our life but this strange poetry, we should feel that in the work of Emily Dickinson, America, or New England rather, had made a distinctive addition to the literature of the world, and could not be left out of any record of it ?
A:) Susan
B:) Henry Thomas
C:) William Dean Howells
D:) Lavinia Norcross Dickinson
springline- Correct option: C:) William Dean Howells
28. The second wave of feminism created greater cultural sympathy for her as a female poet. Biographers and theorists of the past tended to separate Dickinson's roles as a woman and a poet. Who wrote in his 1952 book This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson, ‘Perhaps as a poet [Dickinson] could find the fulfillment she had missed as a woman ?
A:) George Whicher
B:) Edward Dickinson
C:) James Bowles
D:) Walt Whitman
springline- Correct option: A:) George Whicher
29. Dickinson left no formal statement of her aesthetic intentions and, because of the variety of her themes, her work does not fit conveniently into any one genre. She has been regarded, alongside Whose poems Dickinson admired, as a Transcendentalist ?
A:) Robert Frost
B:) Emily Bronte
C:) Emerson
D:) Langston Hughes
springline- Correct option: C:) Emerson
30. Dickinson biographer Who wrote in My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (2001) that ‘The consequences of the poet's failure to disseminate her work in a faithful and orderly manner are still very much with us ?
A:) Elizabeth Bishop
B:) Alfred Habegger
C:) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D:) Austin
springline- Correct option: B:) Alfred Habegger