Emily Dickinson MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: May 6, 2025

1. First edition of Emily’s poetry edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas W. Higginson was published in which year?
(A) 1890
(B) 1888
(C) 1891
(D) 1892

2. Complete edition of Emily’s poems was published in which year?
(A) 1955
(B) 1950
(C) 1889
(D) 1956

3. Complete edition of Emily’s poems was published in which number of volumes?
(A) Two Volumes
(B) Four Volumes
(C) Three Volumes
(D) Five Volumes

4. Helen Hunt Jackson passed away in:
(A) 1884
(B) 1887
(C) 1886
(D) 1885

5. Emily Dickinson passed away in:
(A) 1888
(B) 1887
(C) 1886
(D) 1889

6. Complete edition of Emily’s letters was published in which year?
(A) 1955
(B) 1958
(C) 1956
(D) 1959

7. Complete edition of Emily’s letters was published in which number of volumes?
(A) Five Volumes
(B) Three Volumes
(C) Two Volumes
(D) Six Volumes

8. Who is the author of the poem “Ghosts”?
(A) Emily Dickinson
(B) Keats
(C) Shelley
(D) None of A, B, and C

9. Emily Dickinson passed away at the age of:
(A) Fifty-five
(B) Sixty
(C) Fifty
(D) Sixty-five

10. Emily’s poetic interest was renewed:
(A) In the late 1870s
(B) In the mid 1870s
(C) In the early 1870s
(D) None of A, B, and C

11. How many poems were written by Emily Dickinson?
(A) 1000
(B) 1775
(C) 500
(D) 1800

12. Emily Dickinson drafted her first master letter relating to someone she loved in:
(A) 1861
(B) 1859
(C) 1860
(D) 1858

13. Emily Dickinson drafted two other “master” letters in:
(A) 1860
(B) 1862
(C) 1861
(D) 1863

14. How many poems were composed by Emily Dickinson during eight years?
(A) Over 1000
(B) 900
(C) 800
(D) None of A, B, and C

15. Which is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(A) In Vain
(B) Ghosts
(C) Adonais
(D) None of A, B, and C

16. How many poems were written by Emily Dickinson during 1863-65?
(A) 200 Poems
(B) 300 Poems
(C) 500 Poems
(D) 400 Poems

17. How many poems of Emily Dickinson were published prior to her death?
(A) 8
(B) 10
(C) 7
(D) 11

18. Most of the poems of Emily that equate beauty with immortality were written during:
(A) 1860-61
(B) 1863-64
(C) 1862-63
(D) None of A, B, and C

19. Who is the author of “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”?
(A) Emily Dickinson
(B) W.B Yeats
(C) John Donne
(D) None of A, B, and C

20. Emily’s family moved back to the old house on Main Street in:
(A) 1857
(B) 1856
(C) 1855
(D) 1858