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
Question’s Answer: 1890
Complete edition of Emily’s poems was published in which year?
(a) 1955
(b) 1950
(c) 1889
(d) 1956
1955
Question’s Answer:
Complete edition of Emily’s poems was published in which year?
(a) Two Volumes
(b) Four Volumes
(c) Three Volumes
(d) Five Volumes
Question’s Answer: Three Volumes
Helen Hunt Jackson pass away in:
(a) 1884
(b) 1887
(c) 1886
(d) 1885
Question’s Answer: 1885
Emily Dickinson pass away in:
(a) 1888
(b) 1887
(c) 1886
(d) 1889
Question’s Answer: 1886
Complete edition of Emily’s letters was published in which year?
(a) 1955
(b) 1958
(c) 1956
(d) 1959
Question’s Answer: 1958
Complete edition of Emily’s letters was published in which year?
(a) Five-Volumes
(b) Three Volumes
(c) Two Volumes
(d) Six Volumes
Question’s Answer: Three Volumes
Who is author of the poem “Ghosts”?
(a) Emily Dickinson
(b) Keats
(c) Shelley
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson pass away at the age of:
(a) Fifty-five
(b) Sixty
(c) Fifty
(d) Sixty-five
Question’s Answer: Fifty-five
Emily’s poetic interest was renewed:
(a) In the late 18705
(b) In the mid 18705
(c) In the early 1870s
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: In the early 1870s
How many poems were written by Emily Dickinson?
(a) 1000
(b) 1775
(c) 500
(d) 1800
Question’s Answer: 1775
Emily Dickinson drafted her first master letter relating to someone she loved in:
(a) 1861
(b) 1859
(c) 1860
(d) 1858
Question’s Answer: 1858
Emily Dickinson drafted two other “master” letters in:
(a) 1860
(b) 1862
(c) 1861
(d) 1863
Question’s Answer: 1861
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
Question’s Answer: Over 1000
Which is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(a) In Vain
(b) Ghosts
(c) Adonais
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Adonais
How many poems were written by Emily Dickinson during 1863-65?
(a) 200 Poems
(b) 300 Poems
(c) 500 Poems
(d) 400 Poems
Question’s Answer: 400 Poems
How many poems of Emily Dickinson were published prior to her death?
(a) 8
(b) 10
(c) 7
(d) 11
Question’s Answer: 7
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
Question’s Answer: 1862-63
Who is the author of the “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”?
(a) Emily Dickinson
(b) W.B Yeats
(c) John Dome
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Emily Dickinson
Emily’s family moved back to old house on Main Street in:
(a) 1857
(b) 1856
(c) 1855
(d) 1858
Question’s Answer: 1855
Emily’s brother Austin married in:
(a) 1855
(b) 1858
(c) 1857
(d) 1856
Question’s Answer: 1856
Emily wrote more than fifty poems during
(a) 1859
(b) 1858
(c) 1860
(d) 1861
Question’s Answer: 1858
Emily formed friendship with Samuel Bowles in
(a) 1857
(b) 1860
(c) 1859
(d) 1858
Question’s Answer: 1858
Who is the author of the “The Brain”?
(a) Emily Dickinson
(b) Robert Burns
(c) W.B. Yeats
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Emily Dickinson
Which is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(a) Youth and Age
(b) The Brain
(c) I Pass away For Beauty
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Youth and Age
When did Emily hear of Reverend Charles Wadsworth preach in Philadelphia?
(a) 1853
(b) 1854
(c) 1856
(d) 1855
Question’s Answer: 1855
Which is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(a) 1 Pass away For Beauty
(b) I Felt a Funeral In My Mind
(c) Birches
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Birches
Emily was visited by Reverend Charles Wadsworth early in:
(a) 1863
(b) 1861
(c) 1862
(d) 1860
Question’s Answer: 1860
Emily’s “The May-Wine” was published in which year?
(a) 1861
(b) 1860
(c) 1862
(d) 1863
Question’s Answer: 1861
How many stanzas are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “In Vain”?
(a) Ten stanzas
(b) Fifteen stanzas
(c) Twelve stanzas
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twelve stanzas
How many lines are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “Suspense”?
(a) 8 lines
(b) 10 lines
(c) 15 lines
(d) 20 lines
Question’s Answer: 8 lines
How many stanzas are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “Suspense”?
(a) Four stanzas
(b) Three stanzas
(c) Two stanzas
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two stanzas
How many stanzas are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “Ghosts”?
(a) Five stanzas
(b) Four stanzas
(c) Six stanzas
(d) Seven stanzas
Question’s Answer: Five stanzas
How many lines are there in Dickinson’s poem “Ghosts”? Emily
(a) 26 lines
(b) 21 lines
(c) 25 lines
(d) 20 lines
Question’s Answer: 20 lines
“Suspense” is a:
(a) Novel
(b) Drama
(c) Poem
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Poem
Emily underwent a great emotional crisis during the winter of
(a) 1865
(b) 1863
(c) 1864
(d) 1862
Question’s Answer: 1862
How many lines are there in. Emily Dickinson’s poem “In Vain”?
(a) 54 lines
(b) 52 lines
(c) 51 lines
(d) 55 lines
Question’s Answer: 51 lines
In Emily Dickinson’s poem “By The the Sea is the symbol of:
(a) Death
(b) Calmness
(c) Serenity
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Death
Emily Dickinson was a:
(a) Poetess
(b) Play-Wright
(c) Novelist
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Poetess
Emily Dickinson belonged to:
(a) 19th Century
(b) 18th Century
(c) 20th Century
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 19th Century
Which is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(a) By The Sea
(b) I Pass away For Beauty
(c) Desert Places
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Desert Places
Emily’s “The Sleeping” was published in which year?
(a) 1862
(b) 1860
(c) 1863
(d) 1864
Question’s Answer: 1862
How many poems were written by Emily during 1862?
(a) 300 poems
(b) 500 poems
(c) 400 poems
(d) 366 poems
Question’s Answer: 366 poems
Emily initiated correspondence with Thomas W. Higginson in:
(a) 1862
(b) 1861
(c) 1863
(d) 1864
Question’s Answer: 1862
Emily made her mind to become a private poet in:
(a) 1860
(b) 1861
(c) 1863
(d) 1862
Question’s Answer: 1862
Emily wrote nearly 400 poems during:
(a) 1863-65
(b) 1863-66
(c) 1862-65
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1863-65
How many poems were written by Emily Dickinson in the year 1870?
(a) 200 poems
(b) Nearly 100 poems
(c) 300 poems
(d) 400 poems
Question’s Answer: 200 poems
Who is author of the poem “In Vain”?
(a) Tennyson
(b) Emily Dickinson
(c) Robert Frost
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Emily Dickinson
Who is the author of the “By The Sea”?
(a) Keats
(b) Robert Browning
(c) Emily Dickinson
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Emily Dickinson
Emily’s “My Sabbath” was published in which year?
(a) 1863
(b) 1866
(c) 1865
(d) 1864
Question’s Answer: 1864
Emily went to Boston for eye, treatment in:.
(a) 1864
(b) 1863
(c) 1865
(d) 1866
Question’s Answer: 1864
Emily Dickinson was born in:
(a) 1829
(b) 1832
(c) 1831
(d) 1830
Question’s Answer: 1830
Emily’s birthplace was:
(a) Amherst
(b) London
(c) California
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Amherst
Emily Dickinson’s father was a:
(a) Lawyer
(b) Writer
(c) Doctor
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lawyer
In his later life Emily’s father became:
(a) Dean of Amherst College
(b) Professor of Amherst College
(c) Treasurer of Amherst College
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Treasurer of Amherst College
Which is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(a) I Pass away For Beauty
(b) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
(c) In Vain
Question’s Answer: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Emily’s poem “Sunset” was published in which year?
(a) 1863
(b) 1866
(c) 1865
(d) 1864
Question’s Answer: 1864
Emily Dickinson was the:
(a) Second child of her parents
(b) First child of her parents
(c) Third child of her parents
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Second child of her parents
Emily’s family moved from homestead on Main Street to a new residence in:
(a) 1842
(b) 1841
(c) 1840
(d) 1843
Question’s Answer: 1840
Emily graduated from the Amherst Academy after six years of irregular attendance in:
(a) 1846
(b) 1849
(c) 1848
(d) 1847
Question’s Answer: 1847
Who is the author of the “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”?
(a) Emily Dickinson
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Robert Browning
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Emily Dickinson
Which is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(a) I Heard A Fly Buzz… When I Pass away
(b) Because I could not stop for death
(c) Desert Places
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Desert Places
How many years after Emily graduated from the Amherst Academy?
(a) Five Years
(b) Eight Years
(c) Seven Years
(d) Six Years
Question’s Answer: Six Years
Emily attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary at South Hadley during:
(a) 1840-48
(b) 1847-49
(c) 1847-48
(d) 1848-50
Question’s Answer: 1847-48
Emily attended the Amherst Academy in:
(a) 1845
(b) 1842
(c) 1846
(d) 1847
Question’s Answer: 1842
Emily was deeply affected by a winter religious revival, but failed to convert in:
(a) 1842
(b) 1845
(c) 1847
(d) 1846
Question’s Answer: 1846
Emily underwent a severe religious crisis, but again remained unconverted in:
(a) 1851
(b) 1849
(c) 1850
(d) 1848
Question’s Answer: 1848
Emily’s first poem “A Mock Valentine” was published in which year?
(a) 1851
(b) 1854
(c) 1853
(d) 1852
Question’s Answer: 1852
Emily’s father was elected to Congress in:
(a) 1855
(b) 1853
(c) 1854
(d) 1852
Question’s Answer: 1852
Emily spent two months in Washington in:
(a) 1854
(b) 1856
(c) 1855
(d) 1857
Question’s Answer: 1855
Emily spent the month of March in Philadelphia in:
(a) 1856
(b) 1855
(c) 1857
(d) 1858
Question’s Answer: 1855
How many lyrics of Emily Dickinson deal with death?
(a) 400 lyrics
(b) 450 lyrics
(c) More than 500 lyrics
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: More than 500 lyrics
Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” was first published in:
(a) 1890
(b) 1880
(c) 1897
(d) 1898
Question’s Answer: 1890
Emily came under the influence of Ben Newton during:
(a) 1848-49
(b) 1847-49
(c) 1848-50
(d) 1849-50
Question’s Answer: 1848-49
Emily’s Prose Valentine was published in Amherst undergraduate magazine in:
(a) 1849
(b) 1852
(c) 1851
(d) 1850
Question’s Answer: 1850
How many lines are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I Could not Stop For Death?
(a) 23
(b) 26
(c) 25
(d) 24
Question’s Answer: 24
How many stanzas are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I Could not. Stop For Death”?
(a) Five stanzas
(b) Seven stanzas
(c) Six stanzas
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Six stanzas
The theme of “Because I Could Not Stop For Death is”:
(a) Death
(b) Marriage
(c) Modern Civilisation
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Death
How many stanzas are there in Emily’s poem “I Heard A Fly Buzz… When I Pass away”?
(a) Nine stanzas
(b) Five stanzas
(c) Eight stanzas
(d) Four stanzas
Question’s Answer: Four stanzas
Emily’s poem “I Felt a Funeral In My Brain” was first published in:
(a) 1896
(b) 1895
(c) 1897
(d) 1898
Question’s Answer: 1896
How many lines are there in Emily Dickinson’s Poem “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain””?
(a) 15 lines
(b) 22 lines
(c) 20 lines
(d) 16 lines
Question’s Answer: 16 lines
How many stanzas are there in Emily’s “I Felt a Funeral In My Brain?
(a) 4 stanzas
(b) 5 stanzas
(c) 6 stanzas
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 4 stanzas
Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” was first published in:
(a) 1889
(b) 1892
(c) 1891
(d) 1890
Question’s Answer: 1890
Emily Dickinson’s poem “I Heard a Fly Buzz …. When I Pass away” was first published in:
(a) 1888
(b) 1898
(c) 1897
(d) 1896
Question’s Answer: 1896
How many lines are there in Emily’s poem. “I Heard a Fly Buzz… when I Pass away?
(a) 16 lines
(b) 15 lines
(c) 20 lines
(d) 22 lines
Question’s Answer: 16 lines
Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” consists of:
(a) Five stanzas
(b) Four stanzas
(c) Three stanzas
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three stanzas
Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” consists of:
(a) Twelve lines
(b) Ten lines
(c) Fifteen lines
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twelve lines
Emily Dickinson lived in a house from where she observed the funeral processions passing by to the adjacent cemetery for:
(a) Seventeen years
(b) Sixteen years
(c) Fifteen years
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fifteen years
How many lines are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “1 Pass away For Beauty”?
(a) 20 lines
(b) 15 lines
(c) 12 lines
(d) 22 lines
Question’s Answer: 12 lines
How many stanzas are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “I Pass away For Beauty?
(a) Six
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Three
Question’s Answer: Three
Who is the author of the “The Railway Train”?
(a) Robert Browning
(b) Robert Burns
(c) Emily Dickinson
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson’s “The Brain” consists of:
(a) Five stanzas
(b) Four stanzas
(c) Three stanzas
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three stanzas
How many lines are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Brain”?
(a) 20 lines
(b) 15 lines
(c) 12 lines
(d) 22 lines
Question’s Answer: 12 lines
Which is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(a) Suspense
(b) In Vain
(c) The Solitary Reaper
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Solitary Reaper
How many stanzas are there in Emily’s poem “The Railway Train”?
(a) Three
(b) Six
(c) Five
(d) Four
Question’s Answer: Four
How many lines are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “By the Sea”?
(a) 20 lines
(b) 26 lines
(c) 25 lines
(d) 24 lines
Question’s Answer: 24 lines
Emily’s “The Snake” was published in which year?
(a) 1866
(b) 1865
(c) 1867
(d) 1868
Question’s Answer: 1866
Reverend Charles Wordsworth returned to Philadelphia in:
(a) 1872
(b) 1870
(c) 1871
(d) 1869
Question’s Answer: 1869
Emily was visited by Thomas W.Higginson in:
(a) 1870
(b) 1869
(c) 1871
(d) 1872
Question’s Answer: 1870
Emily was visited by Thomas Higginson second and last time in:
(a) 1876
(b) 1874
(c) 1875
(d) 1873
Question’s Answer: 1873
How many lines are there in Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Railway Train”?
(a) 22 lines
(b) 18 lines
(c) 20 lines
(d) 16 lines
Question’s Answer: 16 lines
Emily Dickinson’s poem By the Sea consists of:
(a) Eight stanzas
(b) Seven stanzas
(c) Six stanzas
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Six stanzas
Who is author of the poem “Suspense”?
(a) Emily Dickinson
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Robert Frost
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Emily Dickinson
Which is not a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(a) Ghosts
(b) The Railway Train
(c) None of A, B, and C
(d) The Road Not Taken
Question’s Answer: The Road Not Taken
Emily developed friendship with Helen Hunt Jackson in:
(a) 1871
(b) 1873
(c) 1872
(d) 1874
Question’s Answer: 1873
Emily’s father pass away in:
(a) 1876
(b) 1875
(c) 1874
(d) 1877
Question’s Answer: 1874
Emily’s friendship with Judge Otis Lord developed into a love attachment after the death of Lord’s wife during:
(a) 1877-80
(b) 1877-84
(c) 1877-81
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1877-84
Samuel Bowles pass away in:
(a) 1881
(b) 1879
(c) 1880
(d) 1878
Question’s Answer: 1878
Emily’s poem “Sucess” was published in which year?
(a) 1877
(b) 1880
(c) 1879
(d) 1878
Question’s Answer: 1878
Emily was visited by Charles Wordsworth for the last time in:
(a) 1882
(b) 1881
(c) 1880
(d) 1883
Question’s Answer: 1880
Josiah Gilbert Holland pass away in:
(a) 1880
(b) 1883
(c) 1882
(d) 1881
Question’s Answer: 1881
Emily entered into complete seclusion in:
(a) 1873
(b) 1877
(c) 1874
(d) 1878
Question’s Answer: 1874
Emily suffered a nervous collapse after the death of Judge Otis Lord in:
(a) 1884
(b) 1883
(c) 1885
(d) 1886
Question’s Answer: 1884
Emily became ill and confined to bed in:
(a) 1887
(b) 1886
(c) 1885
(d) 1888
Question’s Answer: 1885
Emily’s mother was paralysed in:
(a) 1877
(b) 1876
(c) 1875
(d) 1878
Question’s Answer: 1875
Charles Wadsworth pass away in:
(a) 1882
(b) 1881
(c) 1883
(d) 1884
Question’s Answer: 1882
Emily’s mother pass away in:
(a) 1885
(b) 1883
(c) 1884
(d) 1882
Question’s Answer: 1882
Emily’s favourite nephew pass away in:
(a) 1882
(b) 1884
(c) 1883
(d) 1885
Question’s Answer: 1883