View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Finish this line from "Fiction and the Reading Public": "Just please me for two generations - you'll be _______."
(a) Bound by fate.
(b) Truly great.
(c) Only a bit late.
(d) Worthy of hate.

2. What object is the subject of the poem "Whatever Happened"?
(a) A theater ticket.
(b) A photograph.
(c) An old coat.
(d) A compass.

3. In the poem "An Arudel Tomb," what are the earl and countess secretly doing?
(a) Holding hands.
(b) Crying.
(c) Talking to each other.
(d) Singing.

4. In "Breadfruit," what do boys dream of?
(a) Love.
(b) Native girls.
(c) Fame.
(d) Grapes.

5. In the poem "The Trees," what word is repeated three times?
(a) Thresh.
(b) Again.
(c) Dead.
(d) Afresh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "irritant" is mentioned in the poem "Dry-Point"?

2. To whom is the poem "Conscript" dedicated?

3. In "Portrait," what is the girl's enemy?

4. In the poem "An Arundel Tomb," what lies at the earl and countess' feet?

5. In "Heads in the Woman's Ward," what does the narrator say smiles are for?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 183 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample