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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Solitary Reaper"?
(a) John Keats.
(b) William Blake.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) Percy Shelley.

2. What do the metaphors in lines 9-12 and 13-16 have in common?
(a) They both compare the reaper to a bird.
(b) They both compare the speaker to a traveler.
(c) The both compare music to a geographical location.
(d) They both compare traveling to a specific time of year.

3. 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 questions.
(d) They are all fragments.

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?
(a) Love and romance.
(b) Ordinary, everyday troubles.
(c) The beauty of the Highlands.
(d) Modern political events.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 4, "Stop here, or gently pass!" what is the grammatical mood of the words "stop" and "pass"?

2. What is the meaning of the word "lay" in the line "Or is it some more humble lay" (line 21)?

3. What technique is employed in lines 7 and 8, "O listen! for the Vale profound / Is overflowing with the sound"?

4. Which is the best interpretation of line 6's reference to "a melancholy strain"?

5. Which line uses deliberate redundancy for emphasis?

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