This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Poets > Robert Frost > Robert Frost – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Robert Frost Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the speaker looking for? A) The man who cut the grass. B) His boss. C) A scythe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The man who cut the grass. 2. Where did Robert Frost and his family move to in hope for a better opportunity for his poetry? A) New York City. B) San Francisco. C) England. D) Massachusetts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) England. 3. Explain the sound device used in the first stanza of "The Road Not Taken" and its impact on the poem. A) Alliteration, creating a melodic flow. B) Assonance, emphasizing vowel sounds. C) Consonance, highlighting harsh consonants. D) Rhyme scheme, establishing a musical pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme, establishing a musical pattern. 4. Complete the quotation:'Men work ..... ' I told him from the ..... 'Whether they work together or ..... A) Alone-dream as a team. B) Together-heart apart. C) For money-heart alone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Together-heart apart. 5. Which does the speaker believe is most likely to lead to the world's end? A) Fire. B) Ice. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fire. 6. Who is the encounter between? (literally) A) The orchid Calypso an the Narrator. B) The spirit of nature and the spirit of man. C) A spectre and the Narrator. D) The Narrator and a telephone pole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Narrator and a telephone pole. 7. The "Something" referred to in lines 1 and 35 is A) Nature. B) Dogs. C) Hunters. D) Neighbors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 8. What is the overall message or lesson conveyed by "The Road Not Taken" ? A) Embrace uncertainty and take risks. B) Stick to the familiar and avoid risks. C) Choices have no consequences. D) The journey is more important than the destination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Embrace uncertainty and take risks. 9. Which quote from the poem explains why the speaker left the ladder and bucket by the tree? A) "And there's a barrel that I didn't fill.". B) "But I was well / Upon my way to sleep before it fell.". C) "I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.". D) "I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired.". 10. What does the word repented mean in line 11? A) Regretted. B) Undressed. C) Commanded. D) Observed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Regretted. 11. All of the following words describe the colt in "The Runaway" except A) Winter-broken. B) Frightened. C) Quick-footed. D) Little. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Winter-broken. 12. Which of the following is a common theme in Frost's poetry? A) Pastoral Life. B) Economics. C) Circuses. D) Life at Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pastoral Life. 13. In "The Road Not Taken", which of the following statements is the closest interpretation of the line "Yet knowing how way leads on to way" ? A) You can never go home again. B) One path takes you to the next. C) It's easy to get lost. D) You can know something yet not know it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One path takes you to the next. 14. The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree. Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. What is the speaker's mood at the beginning of the poem? A) Angry. B) Joyful. C) Happy. D) Sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sad. 15. The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is ..... A) A, A, B, C. B) A, A, B, A. C) A, B, A, B. D) A, B, B, C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A, A, B, A. 16. Salt dissolved in water is an example of A) An element. B) A compound. C) A mixture. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A mixture. 17. How many of Robert Frost's children outlived him? A) 3. B) 5. C) 2. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 18. "Walking through the crowd / The village is aglow" A) Taylor Swift. B) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taylor Swift. 19. "Visions of half the world burned black" A) Robert Frost. B) Taylor Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Frost. 20. "Her early leaf's a flower" is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 21. "September saw a month of tears" A) Robert Frost. B) Taylor Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taylor Swift. 22. How does the speaker most likely feel in the first two lines of the poem? A) Eager to be alone. B) Determined to brave the cold. C) Regretting the long walk. D) Desiring of company. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Desiring of company. 23. Which word best describes the tone of this poem? A) Sorrowful. B) Brisk. C) Bleak. D) Reflective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reflective. 24. Which definition BEST describes the way "trodden" is used in line 12? A) Walked on or over. B) Taken advantage of. C) Part of shoe that touches the ground. D) Part of the wheel that touches the ground. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walked on or over. 25. "We ran as if to meet the moon/That slowly dawned behind the trees" A) Taylor Swift. B) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert Frost. 26. "The Lockless Door" was about ..... A) How people get older and change. B) How you can't escape your problems because change is inevitable. C) How lonely can make you scared of doors. D) Houses aren't always safe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How you can't escape your problems because change is inevitable. 27. The 1st stanza of the poem emphasizes that the speaker's A) Thoughtful. B) Resting. C) Confused. D) Impulsive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thoughtful. 28. What were the two meanings of her early leaf's a flower? A) Flowers come first, Spring is pretty. B) Trees are big, early is better. C) Flowers make me cry, Being old is fun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flowers come first, Spring is pretty. 29. In line 12, what does the word trodden mean?"In leaves no step had trodden black." A) From this time. B) Promising; favorable. C) Walked on. D) Small trees and plants growing beneath larger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walked on. 30. Which of the following is the same within the poem? A) Rhyme Scheme. B) The number of lines per stanza. C) Both rhyme scheme and the number of lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both rhyme scheme and the number of lines. 31. The first road symbolizes A) A riskier choice. B) A more dangerous choice. C) A more conventional choice. D) A less traveled by choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A more conventional choice. 32. The poet took the road ..... A) To the right. B) To the left. C) The one less traveled by. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The one less traveled by. 33. With which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree? A) Desire and hate are the most destructive forces. B) In the future, the world will die two times over. C) Fires are necessary to cleanse and clear out dead brush. D) Desire and hate are irrelevant to society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Desire and hate are the most destructive forces. 34. Who is the poet referring to when he says, "Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower" A) Mother Nature. B) Eden. C) Johnny's mum. D) Ponyboy's mum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mother Nature. 35. Which Repetition expresses that the poet will become too much busy to come back? A) How way leads on to way. B) Somewhere ages and ages hence. C) And I-I took the one less travelled by. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How way leads on to way. 36. What does the poet suggest about human emotions in the poem? A) They are always positive and uplifting. B) They can lead to destruction if not controlled. C) They have no impact on the world. D) They are easily forgotten and ignored. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They can lead to destruction if not controlled. 37. " ..... remember/How the stars stole the night away" A) Robert Frost. B) Taylor Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taylor Swift. 38. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveller, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; The rhyme scheme of the poem is ..... A) Swirl. B) THE FATHER. C) FATHER. D) ABABA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) FATHER. 39. What role does death play in the poem? A) It shows how nature is put to good use after death. B) It is used to show how nature deserves to be brought down when old and used for human purpose. C) Death is meant literally in the poem. The tree is gone and not put to good use. D) It shows the tree's transition from wild and free to tamed and lifeless. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It shows the tree's transition from wild and free to tamed and lifeless. 40. How does the poet feel that the colt in "The Runaway" would respond to his mother's lesson? A) He wouldn't believe her. B) He would calm down. C) He would run away from her. D) He would think she was angry at him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He wouldn't believe her. 41. Pick out the lines which says that the two roads looked similar that morning A) "Oh, I kept the first for another day.". B) "Yet knowing how way leads on to way". C) "Both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden back.". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden back.". 42. What had not "trodden" black? A) The forest. B) The leaves. C) The fall. D) Steps. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Steps. 43. What does the poet compare fire and ice to in the poem? A) Self-destructive emotions of human beings. B) Historical events. C) Human relationships. D) Natural disasters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-destructive emotions of human beings. 44. The poem "The Road Not Taken" is often mistitled "The Road Less Travelled" . What ONE word is important to understanding the poem's true meaning? A) Not. B) Road. C) Less. D) Travelled. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not. 45. Why are there so many full stops (caesuras) at the end of the last lines of the poem? A) To show that his life is coming to an end and create a sense of finality. B) To make us pause and catch our breath. C) To help us take in everything that's happening. D) Because these are sentences which need full stops. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To show that his life is coming to an end and create a sense of finality. 46. Which of the following words bests describes the speaker of "A Minor Bird" ? A) Lonely. B) Stubborn. C) Thoughtful. D) Cruel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thoughtful. 47. In the line "Oh, I kept the first for another day!, " in "The Road Not Taken", "the first" refers to- A) The road. B) The poem. C) Fate. D) The narrator's choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The road. 48. What is the name of Frost's first poem? A) The Road Not Taken. B) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. C) My Butterfly:An Elegy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My Butterfly:An Elegy. 49. What were Robert Frost's first poetic publications? A) A Boy's Will and North of Boston. B) The Raven and This is Just to Say. C) The Tragic Muse and The Best in The Jungle. D) A Boy's Will and The Raven. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Boy's Will and North of Boston. 50. How many stanzas is "The Lockless Door" ? A) 7. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 51. "All my flowers grew back as thorns" A) Robert Frost. B) Taylor Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taylor Swift. 52. After his father died, where did Robert Frost move to? A) Snowe, Vermont. B) Lawrence, Massachusetts. C) Bethel, Maine. D) Franconia, New Hampshire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lawrence, Massachusetts. 53. The atmosphere of "Once by the Pacific" is- A) Tragic. B) Threatening. C) Light. D) Joyous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Threatening. 54. Why did the poet most likely write "Good Hours" ? A) To inform about what happens during walk. B) To share his favorite places to walk. C) To describe one of his nighttime walks. D) To explain why he goes for walks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To describe one of his nighttime walks. 55. What was the title of the first poem that Frost published professionally? A) TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A WOOD. B) FIRE AND ICE. C) STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING. D) MY BUTTERFLY:AN ELEGY. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) MY BUTTERFLY:AN ELEGY. 56. In Nothing Gold Can Stay, why does the poet uses "leaf's" instead of "leaf is" in line 3? A) To make the reader think he is talking about multiple leaves. B) "leaf's" has a different meaning than "leaf is.". C) To maintain the rhythm of the poem. D) To make the poem seem like it is old. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To maintain the rhythm of the poem. 57. In The Road Not Taken, which two words BEST describes how the mood in the poem shifts? A) Scared to happy. B) Confident to questioning. C) Questioning to confident. D) Uncaring to concerned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Questioning to confident. 58. Is there rhyme in the poem? A) Yes:AA BB. B) Yes:AB AB. C) None. D) Some. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes:AA BB. 59. The use of gold in the poem represents all of the blessings and good things that happen in life. This is an example of: A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 60. In the poem, Frost uses all of the following writing tools, EXCEPT ..... A) Dialogue. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPoets QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRobert Frost Quiz 1Robert Frost Quiz 2Robert Frost Quiz 3Robert Frost Quiz 4Robert Frost Quiz 6Robert Frost Quiz 7Robert Frost Quiz 8Robert Frost Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books