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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where are "the farthest Hebrides" (line 16)?
(a) Australia.
(b) Russia.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Chile.
2. How does line 3, "Reaping and singing by herself," interrupt the poem's dominant metrical pattern?
(a) It ends with a trochee.
(b) It begins with a trochee.
(c) It begins with a spondee.
(d) It ends with a spondee.
3. What is the stanzaic form of "The Solitary Reaper"?
(a) Ballade.
(b) Octave.
(c) Ottava rima.
(d) Octet.
4. Which stanza could be reasonably called the most positive in tone?
(a) The third.
(b) The fourth.
(c) The first.
(d) The second.
5. In the fourth stanza, when the speaker finally places himself in the scene, what is it clear he is there to do?
(a) He is there to confess his love for the woman.
(b) He is working on a farm.
(c) He is delivering supplies.
(d) He is out walking.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following most clearly communicates the speaker's admiration for the reaper's singing ability?
2. Who is the author of "The Solitary Reaper"?
3. In the lines "Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow / For old, unhappy, far-off things," what does "plaintive numbers" refer to (lines 18-19)?
4. What do all three sentences in the third stanza have in common?
5. From context, what is is likely meaning of "single" in line 1, "Behold her, single in the field"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the speaker's line 26 description of the reaper singing "As if her song could have no ending" reinforce the meaning of the poem's ending?
2. Summarize the action of "The Solitary Reaper."
3. Explain how the mention of "spring-time" in line 14's description of the cuckoo enhances the contrast between this image and the image of the nightingale.
4. To which two birds does the speaker compare the reaper, and what area of the world does the speaker associate with each?
5. In what way do the places associated with the two birds create a dramatic contrast with one another?
6. Describe the rhyme scheme of "The Solitary Reaper."
7. What are the names of the two forms of poetry that are combined in this poem, and how are they combined?
8. Describe the meter of "The Solitary Reaper."
9. What question does the speaker ask in the third stanza, and what two contrasting answers does he speculate about?
10. Describe the tense shift in "The Solitary Reaper" and explain what it reveals about the poem's narrative present.
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