Emily Dickinson MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman Shamil | Last updated: February 3, 2024

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