View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much money did Frost receive for his first professional poem?

3. "Blueberries" deals with the life and economy of whom?

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

5. In "A Hundred Collars," who converses with the professor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does "Revelation" describe?

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

4. What do "Death of the Hired Man" and "The Housekeeper" have in common?

5. What does "House Fear" describe?

6. What statement does "The Investment" make?

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

8. How does Untermeyer describe Frost?

9. What is an anthologist?

10. What was the first sound Paul's wife made, according to "Paul's Wife"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the poems to support your answer, explain what role Frost gives to husbands and wives and why he uses them in his poetry.

Essay Topic 3

A lot of Frost's poems are symbolic. What role does the weather play in Frost's poems? Use at least four specific examples in your answer.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 478 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample