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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Runaway and Other Animals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Home Burial" has the grave of a family's first child within view of what?
(a) The front door.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The back porch.
(d) A landing window.

2. According to the message of "The Oven Bird," for what kind of things does the bird offer advice?
(a) Stale.
(b) Old.
(c) Diminished.
(d) Fresh.

3. What mood is created in "Departmental"?
(a) Satirical.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Angry.

4. In "Two Tramps in MudTime," Frost reflects on how he loves that water collects in what way before the summer dries it up?
(a) Rivers.
(b) Footprints.
(c) Tree roots.
(d) Lakes.

5. "The Vanishing Red" is about whom?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A bookbinder.
(c) A miller.
(d) A showmaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final line of "Bereft" the character says that he has no one left but whom?

2. What is the poetic form of "Mowing"?

3. What was the subtitle in the original printing of "Departmental"?

4. In "The Gum-Gatherer," Frost describes the gum as brown crystals that reveal _______ insides.

5. What is described in the opening of "The Wood Pile" ?

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