Robert Frost
Take this short quiz to check your understanding of Frost's poems. Take a screenshot of your score report - you'll submit it on the next page!
- 1.What is the rhyme scheme of "After Apple Picking?"
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a. ABAB BCBC CDCD
- B.
b. ABBA CDDC DEED
- C.
c. ABBA BCCB CDDC
- D.
d. It has no fixed rhyme scheme.
- 2.In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Frost writes that the speaker imagines his horse to think him strange. What might be the significance of this?
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a. Frost is implying that the speaker is insane.
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b. The opinion of the horse could represent the opinion of society; the speaker recognizes that in the eyes of his peers, his actions seem strange.
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c. Frost is trying to use humor in his poem.
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d. The talking horse suggests that animals, as representatives of the natural world, are wise and have important things to say to us.
- 3.In "Acquainted with the Night," the last line of the first stanza, "I have outwalked the furthest city light" suggests that the
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a. speaker's vision is impaired by the rain
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b. speaker only walks in total darkness
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c. speaker sees the lights turned off
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d. speaker walks great distances in the night
- 4.What is the speaker doing in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?"
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a. Watching someone's wood fill up with snow
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b. Taking a stroll through the woods
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c. Walking his horse
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d. Collecting wood for a fire
- 5.What is the speaker's attitude in "After Apple Picking?"
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a. Apple picking is an easy job.
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b. Apple picking is his favorite time of year.
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c. The speaker has had too much of apple picking.
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d. The speaker hates apples.
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