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

2. What award did Frost win from the National Institute of Arts and Letters?
(a) The Platinum Book.
(b) The Literary Master Award.
(c) The Lifetime Achievement Award.
(d) The Gold Medal.

3. In "The Gum-Gatherer" where does the narrator meet a man?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A roadside.
(c) A mountain path.
(d) A car park.

4. According to the man in "Home Burial," what should be absent in a conversation between two people who really love each other?
(a) Misunderstandings.
(b) Secrets.
(c) Falsehoods.
(d) Limits.

5. Frost contrasts the bent birches in "Birches" to what?
(a) The straight grass.
(b) The straight trees.
(c) The flowing wind.
(d) The bent willow trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Vanishing Red" is about whom?

2. "The Witch of Coos" is written from the perspective of whom?

3. What was the name of Frost's first book of poetry?

4. In "The Tuft of Flowers," what animal does the man follow to the flowers?

5. "Home Burial" has the grave of a family's first child within view of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is an anthologist?

3. What is one example of Frost's poems that was a fable and had a moral?

4. What praise did Amy Lowell give to the poem"The Wood Pile"?

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

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

7. What does "House Fear" describe?

8. How did Frost get his name?

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

10. What was Frost's role in the universities where he taught?

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