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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Solitary Reaper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of the word "Yon" in line 2, "Yon solitary Highland Lass"?
(a) You.
(b) Over there, that one.
(c) Nearby, this one.
(d) My.

2. What is the young woman doing in the field?
(a) Watching over grazing sheep.
(b) Watching the speaker from the hillside.
(c) Harvesting a grain crop.
(d) Pushing a cart down a path.

3. In the second stanza, to whom is the nightingale depicted singing?
(a) The reaper.
(b) Travelers.
(c) The speaker.
(d) Shepherds.

4. What do all three sentences in the third stanza have in common?
(a) They are all run-ons.
(b) They are all periodic sentences.
(c) They are all fragments.
(d) They are all questions.

5. Which stanza could be reasonably called the most positive in tone?
(a) The third.
(b) The second.
(c) The fourth.
(d) The first.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are "the farthest Hebrides" (line 16)?

2. How does line 3, "Reaping and singing by herself," interrupt the poem's dominant metrical pattern?

3. What technique is used in the line "A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard" (line 13)?

4. Besides that the reaper may be singing about some terrible moment in history, what else does the speaker guess she might be singing about?

5. What technique is used in phrases like "the Vale profound" (line 7) and "A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard" (line 13)?

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