Robert Frost Quiz 10 (20 MCQs)

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1. "And some are loaves and some so nearly balls" (a)

Correct Answer: A) A metaphor.

2. "They had given him back to her, but not to keep"

Correct Answer: B) Robert Frost.

3. Why does the speaker describe the wall mending job as a game?

Correct Answer: B) It is like a game because the speaker and his neighbor are like two teams standing at each side of the wall.

4. The poem is a ..... , put across by the poet

Correct Answer: A) Powerful warning.

5. The speaker chose the road

Correct Answer: D) That was less traveled on.

6. What is the rhyme scheme for this poem?

Correct Answer: A) THE FATHERS.

7. "The Road Not Taken" can most likely be tied to what in Frost's personal life?

Correct Answer: B) The decision to take his career to England.

8. Based on line 7, what does the word essence tell the reader?

Correct Answer: C) There are classic signs of winter all around the speaker.

9. What is the message of the poem?

Correct Answer: C) Follow your own path.

10. "So dawn goes down to day/Nothing gold can stay" These lines are best described as a use of which literary device?

Correct Answer: D) Analogy.

11. PART A:Which of the following best describes a central theme of the text?

Correct Answer: B) The most beautiful aspects of life are often fleeting.

12. When did Robert Frost know he wanted to be a poet?

Correct Answer: B) When he was in High School.

13. Where did Robert Frost's family move to after leaving New Hampshire?

Correct Answer: C) England.

14. In line 5, the word undergrowth means?"To where it bent in the undergrowth;"

Correct Answer: A) Small trees and plants growing beneath larger trees.

15. What is the Native American legend of the whippoorwill?

Correct Answer: A) The whippoorwill's song is a death omen.

16. "And on a day we meet to walk the line"The speaker and his neighbor meet to-

Correct Answer: C) Reconstruct the stone fence.

17. In the poem, what does the Road represent?

Correct Answer: C) Life.

18. What example of figurative language can be found in the following quote from the poem? "Nature's first green is gold, /Her hardest hue to hold."

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

19. In 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening', who thinks it is strange to stop in the woods?

Correct Answer: C) The poet's horse.

20. Why did Robert Frost start writing poetry?

Correct Answer: B) He was good at it, But he also needed to cope with tragedies that he had witnessed.