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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. What color is the flower in "Design"?

2. What does a census count?

3. Frost's poems are said to have "catholic appeal." Which phrase is synonymous with "catholic appeal"?

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 sets of five lines are contained in "Bereft"?

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 couple feel at the end of "Two Look at Two"?

4. What do the man and wife want to do with the brook in "The West-Running Brook"?

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

6. In "A Serious Step Lightly Taken" what has the property seen?

7. What will the pools in "Spring Pools" give life to?

8. In "A Minor Bird" what is the conclusion the man comes to?

9. What wish does "The Runaway" end with?

10. How does Frost describe the constellation in "Canis Major"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Untermeyer show the evolution of Frost's poetry in the book? Cite specific examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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