1. What comes “after great pain” in the famous Emily Dickinson poem ?
1. The letting go
2. A concrete simplicity
3. Substantial light
4. A formal feeling
ANSWER:4
2. The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily Dickinson composed herself reads
(1) The List is done
(2) Redemption – Brittle Lady
(3) Judge tenderly – of Me
(4) Called Back
ANSWER:4
3. We are likely to misunderstand an Emily Dickinson poem if we take her famous dashes to be … (A) Quite specific and unambiguous
(B) Ambiguous and indeterminate
(C) Suggestive of both forward and backward movements in terms of sense
(D) Suggestive of links but equivocally
ANSWER:A
4. Emily Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is comparable to her contemporary American poet,
(1) Anne Bradstreet
(2) Robert Lowell
(3) Walt Whitman
(4) Sylvia Plath
ANSWER:3