Ode to a Nightingale Quiz

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1. "Ode to a Nightingale" was composed by John Keats in which year?

1819

1820

1821

1818

2. According to Charles Armitage Brown, the poem was written in:

Multiple sessions over a month

A single evening under moonlight

A single morning while sitting under a plum tree

Several weeks of intense work

3. The inspiration for the ode came from:

His unrequited love for Fanny Brawne

His brother's death from tuberculosis

A nightingale that built its nest in Brown's garden

Keats's illness and suffering

4. Keats died at the young age of:

24 years

25 years

21 years

23 years

5. The phrase "Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water" appears on:

Keats' tombstone in Rome

A letter to Fanny Brawne

The title page of his poetry collection

Keats's manuscript

6. "Ode to a Nightingale" consists of how many stanzas?

7. Each stanza in the ode contains:

Eight lines

Twelve lines

Ten lines

Nine lines

8. The rhyme scheme of each stanza in "Ode to a Nightingale" is:

ABABCDECDE

ABABCDCDCD

ABABCCDEDE

ABBACDECDE

9. The eighth line of each stanza is written in:

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic dimeter

10. The word "hemlock" in the first stanza refers to:

A poisonous plant

A musical instrument

A type of bird

A type of wine

11. "Lethe" mentioned in the first stanza is:

A nightingale's song

A type of flower

The river of forgetfulness in Greek mythology

A drug that induces sleep

12. The nightingale is called a "light-winged Dryad" because:

A Dryad is a tree nymph in Greek mythology

It sings melodious songs

It builds nests in high branches

It flies swiftly through trees

13. "Flora" mentioned in the second stanza represents:

A type of wine

The Roman goddess of flowers and spring

A place in Italy

A musical term

14. The "warm South" in the second stanza most likely refers to:

A warm climate in general

Southern Italy or Mediterranean regions

Southern England

The southern part of the garden

15. "Bacchus and his pards" in the fourth stanza refers to:

Musical instruments

A type of vintage wine

The Roman god of wine and his leopards

Mythical creatures

16. "Queen-Moon" in the fourth stanza is surrounded by:

Darkness and silence

Her starry Fays (fairies)

Clouds and mist

Other celestial bodies

17. "Mid-May's eldest child" refers to:

The coming musk-rose

The speaker's youth

Spring flowers in general

The nightingale itself

18. "Ruth" mentioned in the seventh stanza is:

A contemporary woman Keats knew

A character from Greek mythology

The nightingale's name

A biblical figure who was homesick in a foreign land

19. Which one of the following best captures the theme of the poem “Ode to a Nightingale”?

The triumph of human reason over nature

The permanence of human life compared to nature

The contrast between the mortality of human life and the seeming immortality of the nightingale’s song

The inevitability of war and destruction

20. The concept of Negative Capability (coined by Keats) entails:

The ability to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, without irritable reaching for fact or reason

The rejection of poetry

The acceptance of only scientific truth

The capacity to resist all imagination

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