Period 5 "When I Have Fears" Quiz
First published in 1984, 'When I have Fears' is a love poem by John Keats. It has become one of the most celebrated love poems of all times. The quiz below will help gauge how much you understood from it.
- 1.All of these Romantic characteristics are present in the poem EXCEPT:
- A.
Feelings
- B.
Individualism
- C.
Supernatural
- D.
Nature
- E.
Imagination
- 2.What is the overall meaning of the poem?
- A.
Love will be the death of him (the speaker)
- B.
The speaker is afraid of the ocean (like Kaelynn)
- C.
Grain is king
- D.
The speaker is afraid to die because he won’t be able to experience love and fame
- E.
The speaker is afraid of his own shadow
- 3.What is meant by the line “think that I may never live to trace their shadows with the magic hand of chance?”
- A.
The speaker doesn’t know how to live his life
- B.
Everyone’s life is a game of chance
- C.
The speaker will not be able to live the life he wants before he dies
- D.
Magic controls everyone’s life, not just Harry Potter’s
- E.
The speaker won’t be a part of others’ lives once he dies
- 4.Which one of these occurrences may have influenced this poem?
- A.
Keats’ family died of plague
- B.
Keats’ dog died
- C.
Keats’ died and came back to life
- D.
Keats’ being a giant crybaby
- E.
Keats’ being a Nazi zombie
- 5.What meter is this poem written in?
- A.
Iambic tetrameter
- B.
Trochaic pentameter
- C.
Iambic pentameter
- D.
Trochaic tetrameter
- E.
Iambic decameter
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