When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - Walt Whitman
1. What kind of poem "When lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd " ? a) A dirge b) A
sonnet c) An elegy d) A panegyric
2. Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in --- a) Brooklyn ,Ny b) Camden, New
Jersey c) West Hills , Long island d) Washington D.C.
3. At the age of 17 he started his career as a : a) Teacher b) Clerk c) Printer d)
Journalist.
4. Upon his return to Brooklyn in 1848 he founded a newspaper called : a) long-
Island b) Weekly Freeman c) Evening star d) Daily Eagle.
5. Walt Whitman died on a) Oct 15, 1891 b) May 4, 1892 c) Dec _23, 1891 d) March
26, 1892.
6. What kind of verse Whitman used for "When lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd "
is called. a) Free verse b) iambic pentameter c) iambic trimeter d) Sonnet.
7. The lilacs on that " tall-growing " bush is part of the poem's theme of -- a)
perseverance b) mortality c) immortality d) versions of reality.
8. whose death does "When lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd " Commemorate ? a)
Lincoln's b) John Brown's c) Stonewall Jackson's d) The poet's mother 's.
9. The fallen Western star is really just a symbol reflecting the speaker's feeling of --
a) Society and class b) admiration c) truth d) transformation.
10. The hermit bird singing in the "secluded recesses" is an example of the poem's
theme. a) language b) mortality c) nature d) femininity.
11. When death is depicted as a " Dark mother" that technique is called . 8 a) conflict
b) Anaphora c) Couplet d) personification.
12. The " Trinity of the lilacs, Western star, and hermit bird is really a series of - a)
metre b) allusion c) Symbols d) external conflict.
13. Three people or things considered as a Unit. a) Teaming b) prolific c) haughty d)
Trinity.
1. What kind of poem "When lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd " ? a) A dirge b) A
sonnet c) An elegy d) A panegyric
2. Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in --- a) Brooklyn ,Ny b) Camden, New
Jersey c) West Hills , Long island d) Washington D.C.
3. At the age of 17 he started his career as a : a) Teacher b) Clerk c) Printer d)
Journalist.
4. Upon his return to Brooklyn in 1848 he founded a newspaper called : a) long-
Island b) Weekly Freeman c) Evening star d) Daily Eagle.
5. Walt Whitman died on a) Oct 15, 1891 b) May 4, 1892 c) Dec _23, 1891 d) March
26, 1892.
6. What kind of verse Whitman used for "When lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd "
is called. a) Free verse b) iambic pentameter c) iambic trimeter d) Sonnet.
7. The lilacs on that " tall-growing " bush is part of the poem's theme of -- a)
perseverance b) mortality c) immortality d) versions of reality.
8. whose death does "When lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd " Commemorate ? a)
Lincoln's b) John Brown's c) Stonewall Jackson's d) The poet's mother 's.
9. The fallen Western star is really just a symbol reflecting the speaker's feeling of --
a) Society and class b) admiration c) truth d) transformation.
10. The hermit bird singing in the "secluded recesses" is an example of the poem's
theme. a) language b) mortality c) nature d) femininity.
11. When death is depicted as a " Dark mother" that technique is called . 8 a) conflict
b) Anaphora c) Couplet d) personification.
12. The " Trinity of the lilacs, Western star, and hermit bird is really a series of - a)
metre b) allusion c) Symbols d) external conflict.
13. Three people or things considered as a Unit. a) Teaming b) prolific c) haughty d)
Trinity.
