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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. What weather phenomena does "Bereft" present?
(a) The snow.
(b) The rain.
(c) The wind.
(d) The sun.

2. Frost says that the horse in "The Runaway" is shaking its coat like it is shaking off _________________.
(a) A rider.
(b) Flies.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) Rain.

3. Frost's poems are said to have "catholic appeal." Which phrase is synonymous with "catholic appeal"?
(a) Universal appeal.
(b) Timeless appeal.
(c) Individual appeal.
(d) Natural appeal.

4. What was the subtitle in the original printing of "Departmental"?
(a) The End of My Ant James.
(b) The End of My Ant Jerry.
(c) The End of My Ant Justice.
(d) The End of My Ant Jessica.

5. How many stanzas are "In a Disused Graveyard"?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the farmer urged towards in "A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury"?

2. How many leaves are clinging to the branch in "Looking for a Sunset Bird"?

3. According to "Sand Dunes," what will an ocean do if she cannot drown a man?

4. In "Tree at My Window," Frost compares the tossing of the tree in the wind to the tossing of the speaker's _______________.

5. How many stanzas are there in "Design"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the cow do in "A Cow in Apple Time" once she is on a sugar high?

2. What is the main focus of "A Brook in the City"?

3. What does the character confess in the final line of "Bereft"?

4. What miracle foes "Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight" contemplate?

5. What is the perspective "Canis Major" is written from?

6. What line does Frost use to close the poem "Hyla Brook"?

7. What is asked of the fireman in "Evening in a Sugar Orchard"?

8. What does the poem "Departmental" describe?

9. What does Frost remind himself of in "The Onset"?

10. What idea about friendship does Frost share in "A Time to Talk"?

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