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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the road from the bottom of the mountain to the farm in "Brown's Descent"?

2. What are the two men in "A Hundred Collars" going to share?

3. How is the professor in "A Hundred Collars" described?

4. How many Pulitzer Prizes did Frost win?

5. What kind of tree does a man cut down for his family's Christmas in "To A Young Wretch"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What statement does "The Investment" make?

6. What did Frost do when he knew that he could live by poetry alone?

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

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

9. What does "House Fear" describe?

10. What does "Revelation" describe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using specific examples from the various poems, explain how Frost is, or is not, a synecdochist.

Essay Topic 2

Using what Untermeyer states in the book, explain how "The Road Not Taken" is a parallel for Frost's life.

Essay Topic 3

How does Frost use comparisons? Give at least one example from a poem of the following and explain its effectiveness and meaning: simile, metaphor, and analogy.

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