This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Poets > Robert Frost > Robert Frost – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Robert Frost Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "way leads on to way" means: A) There are many roads ahead. B) It is an uphill road. C) One road joins another road ahead. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One road joins another road ahead. 2. What does the "weather breeder" symbolize? A) The calm before the storm of technology creeping up on nature. B) A bad rainstorm that will cut the Narrators search for the hidden beauty of nature short. C) The beginning of a new chapter. D) The destruction of nature by its own storms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The calm before the storm of technology creeping up on nature. 3. What does the line "Of wire with something in it from men to men" mean? (literally) A) The wires are shackles put on the dead tree by man. B) The wires carry information from men to men since it is a telephone pole. C) A new form of life that the dead tree now carries. D) The tree carries wires as a burden which was given to it by man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The wires carry information from men to men since it is a telephone pole. 4. What is the poet's message regarding emotions in the poem? A) To ignore your emotions completely. B) To let emotions rule over you. C) To express your emotions without restraint. D) To control and manage your emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To control and manage your emotions. 5. What was the name of the award that Robert Frost won 4 times? A) Heisman Trophy. B) Lombardi Trophy. C) Pulitzer Prize. D) World Cup. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pulitzer Prize. 6. In "Fire and Ice, " fire is a metaphor for- A) Friendship. B) Suffering. C) Hate. D) Desire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Desire. 7. What is a common characteristic found in both Frost's and Poe's careers? A) They both gave up writing to spend time with their families. B) They both caught their big-breaks when they were in their 50's. C) They both had to take their works to another country to find success. D) They both struggled immensely early on in their careers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They both struggled immensely early on in their careers. 8. The speaker describes the rebuilding of the wall as a/an (a) A) Scary process. B) A tough process. C) Enjoyable process. D) Tedious process. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A tough process. 9. The entire poem is comparing 2 unlike things; this means that this poem is an Extended ..... A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 10. (Annabel Lee) Which of the following statements best describes the poem's narrator? A) Mentally unbalanced by the death of his loves one. B) Overwhelmed by his life by the sea. C) Relieved by the death of his loved one. D) Content with his life by the sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mentally unbalanced by the death of his loves one. 11. In "The Pasture" Frost expresses his point through the use of ..... A) Similes and rhythm. B) Visual imagery and repetition. C) Personification and rhyme. D) Tone and figures of speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Visual imagery and repetition. 12. The following questions deal with "The Road Not Taken" What is the setting for the poem? A) A Winter Day. B) An Autumn Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An Autumn Day. 13. How many lines are in each stanza? A) 3. B) 6. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 14. At the third stanza the traveler says that (-) A) He will be able to return and take the first road. B) He knows that he won't be able to return and take the first road. C) He is uncertain if he will be able to return and take the first road. D) He doesn't want to return and take the first road. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is uncertain if he will be able to return and take the first road. 15. At the end of the poem, we understand that A) The traveler doesn't give a clear answer about his choice. B) The traveler ia happy about his choice. C) The traveler regrets his choice. D) The traveler is sad about his choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The traveler doesn't give a clear answer about his choice. 16. Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. What does "rued" mean? A) Be happy. B) Praise. C) Delight. D) Feel sorry for. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feel sorry for. 17. Which of the following is NOT true about the poem 'The Road Not Taken'? A) The forest symbolizes our life. B) The forest symbolizes home. C) The traveller symbolizes every individual person. D) The roads symbolize choices in life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The forest symbolizes home. 18. How do people react to the boy's death A) They cry. B) They argue over whose fault it was. C) They get on with their own business. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They get on with their own business. 19. What does the speaker admit in "A Minor Bird" ? A) He does not know how to make the bird leave. B) His negative reaction to the bird is his own fault. C) He does not appreciate music. D) He often criticizes others. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His negative reaction to the bird is his own fault. 20. Identify the use of personification in the poem 'Birches' by Robert Frost. A) The river danced along the rocks. B) The wind whispered through the trees. C) Truth broke in. D) The sun smiled down on the field. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Truth broke in. 21. What other bird is mentioned in the poem? A) An eagle. B) A woodpecker. C) A cardinal. D) A sparrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A woodpecker. 22. I took the one less travelled by, who does ' I ' refer to? A) Poet Robert Frost. B) Morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet Robert Frost. 23. How does the speaker describe the woods? A) Bright and sunny. B) Mysterious and deep. C) Empty and desolate. D) Colorful and vibrant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mysterious and deep. 24. "I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." The second line of the extract means I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference A) The choice has changed life for the worse. B) The choice has made him what he is a famous poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The choice has made him what he is a famous poet. 25. The speaker's neighbor is depicted as A) Uncommunicative and belligerent. B) Silent and aggressive. C) Quiet and friendly. D) Reserved and traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reserved and traditional. 26. What is the setting of the poem like? A) Chaotic, stressful and busy. B) Happy, loud and humorous. C) Depressing, gloomy and sad. D) Tranquil, natural and peaceful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tranquil, natural and peaceful. 27. What literary device is used in the poem 'The Road Not Taken' when Frost writes 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-'? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 28. Which among these affected the speaker in the poem? A) The chance act of a bird causing snow to fall on him. B) The presence of the crow on a winter day. C) The chance to walk in the woods. D) The chance to hear a crow's cawing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The chance act of a bird causing snow to fall on him. 29. What was his spouses name? A) Measures. B) Mary. C) Did not have one. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mary. 30. What figurative language is present in the line 'And that has made all the difference'? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 31. "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December", what does bleak mean? A) Long, drawn out. B) Dark, dreary. C) Happy, cheerful. D) Sad, lonely. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dark, dreary. 32. "Sometimes I wand out of beaten ways" A) Robert Frost. B) Taylor Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taylor Swift. 33. What was describe as "fair" ? A) Both roads. B) The first road. C) The second road. D) The wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both roads. 34. Where did Frost live in 1912-1915 when he Published his first book? A) In Japan. B) In the USA. C) In England. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In England. 35. "And all the time we talked you seemed to see / Something down there to smile at in the dust" A) Robert Frost. B) Taylor Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Frost. 36. Which word is most opposite in meaning to disturbed in line 14? A) Avoided. B) Awakened. C) Soothed. D) Dampened. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soothed. 37. Which season is mentioned in the poem, and how does it relate to the speaker's journey? A) Summer, symbolizing warmth. B) Autumn, symbolizing change. C) Winter, symbolizing hardship. D) Spring, symbolizing new beginnings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autumn, symbolizing change. 38. What language technique:'rueful laugh'? A) Oxymoron. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 39. What does the author mean by "Somewhere ages and ages hence:" in stanza 4? A) Some time in the future. B) Some time in the past. C) The present. D) It's been ages since that hence was painted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Some time in the future. 40. What did Robert Frost compare good fences to? A) Stone walls. B) Corn fields. C) Pine trees. D) Apple trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stone walls. 41. Did he move to Boston due to his fathers death? A) Ours. B) No. C) Yes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yes. 42. The poet regrets that A) He could not travel on both the roads simultaneously. B) He has become old. C) The paths are not clearly visible. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He could not travel on both the roads simultaneously. 43. What is one thing that the speaker pulls from the woods A) The cold, snowy evening. B) The darkness of the woods. C) The freezing, hard wind. D) The promises the speaker needs to keep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The promises the speaker needs to keep. 44. .... According to lines 11-20, how does the speaker interact with his neighbor?a. He demands that his neighbor rebuilds his side of the wall.b. He works with, but much harder than, his neighbor.c. He despises his neighbor and hopes he injures himself.d. He works calmly with his neighbor to rebuild the wall. A) A. B) C. C) D. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) D. 45. Why did he leave Harvard University without completing his graduation? A) Due to his illness. B) Because he was weak student. C) He was not willing to get his degree. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Due to his illness. 46. How many roads diverged in the poem? A) 3. B) 4. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 47. What literary device is used in the poem 'Acquainted with the Night' when Frost writes 'I have passed by the watchman on his beat'? A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 48. "We love the things we love for what they are" A) Robert Frost. B) Taylor Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Frost. 49. Which of the following is the rhyme scheme of the poem? A) Abcdabcd. B) Abcdcd. C) Aabbccdd. D) Aabbbcca. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aabbccdd. 50. "And life is too much like a pathless wood" A) Taylor Swift. B) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert Frost. 51. Emily Dickinson lived in the ..... century. A) 20th. B) 17th. C) 15th. D) 19th. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 19th. 52. The reader can conclude that A) The speaker is certain he will return to travel the other road. B) The speaker is lonely. C) Both roads lead to the same destination. D) The speaker is satisfied with the road he chose to take. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The speaker is satisfied with the road he chose to take. 53. The speaker of the poem wishes that he or she did not have to make a choice between the roads. What lines from the poem support this statement? A) And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler, long I stood. B) Though as for that, the passing there/Had worn them really about the same. C) And both that morning equally lay/In leaves no step had trodden black. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler, long I stood. 54. Frost was given ..... by prestigious universities. A) Medals. B) Job opportunities. C) A salary. D) Honorary degrees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Honorary degrees. 55. What is the poem 'Fire and Ice' by Robert Frost about? A) Historical events. B) Nature and beauty. C) The end of the world. D) Love and romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The end of the world. 56. The Poet Stood at the intersection of? A) A wood painted yellow. B) An Autumn Forest. C) Trees with infected flowers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An Autumn Forest. 57. Does the boy survive his injury? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 58. The ideas in the poem are centered around A) Loneliness. B) Traveling. C) Survival. D) Choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Choices. 59. The way a crow Shook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock tree.Has given my heartA change of MoodAnd Saved some partOf a day I had rued.What does a crow shake down on the speaker? (a) A) A bad mood. B) A a dust of snow. C) A day of rue. D) A hemlock tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A a dust of snow. 60. How does the speaker feel about his decision at the end of the poem? A) He is content with his choice. B) He regrets his decision. C) He wishes he could have taken both paths. D) He is indifferent about his choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is content with his choice. Next →Related QuizzesPoets QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRobert Frost Quiz 2Robert Frost Quiz 3Robert Frost Quiz 4Robert Frost Quiz 5Robert Frost Quiz 6Robert Frost Quiz 7Robert Frost Quiz 8Robert Frost Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books