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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Brown's Descent" has a second name. What is it?
(a) The Without A Doubt Slide.
(b) The Way To Go Slide.
(c) The Willy Nilly Slide.
(d) The Wither Thou Goest Slide.

2. What city did Frost grow up in?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Monterey.

3. How many stanzas are in "Brown's Descent"?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Thirteen.

4. What is the name for a person who uses a part to suggest the whole?
(a) Symparticolist.
(b) Synecdochist.
(c) Methalogist.
(d) Partologist.

5. "Paul's Wife" is Frost's addition to what mythical American story?
(a) Davy Crockett.
(b) Paul Bunyan.
(c) Blue Bess.
(d) Tom Sawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what pattern are the rhymed stanzas in "The Investment"?

2. Which poetic form describes Frost's "Paul's Wife"?

3. What job does the man in "The Tuft of Flowers" hold?

4. Who owns the house where the man asks a question in "Love and a Question"?

5. In what year was Frost born?

Short Essay Questions

1. "The Tuft of Flowers" brings what aspects of the workaday to life?

2. What is the observation that begins "Birches"?

3. What does Frost wonder as he swings the scythe in "Mowing"?

4. What is the concluding reflection in "Two Tramps in Mud Time"?

5. Describe the newspaper collector in "A Hundred Collars."

6. What does "Revelation" describe?

7. According to "The Code," what does Frost understand?

8. What statement does "The Investment" make?

9. In "Snow," why does the husband suggest they forgive the pastor?

10. What happened to Frost in 1913?

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