This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Poets > Robert Frost > Robert Frost – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Robert Frost Quiz 24 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. From whose point of view is this poem written? A) A social teenager. B) A friendly neighbor. C) A curious jogger. D) A solitary walker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A solitary walker. 2. Why does the speaker use the metaphor "miniature thunder" to describe the sound of the colt's fleeing in "The Runaway" ? A) It is raining outside. B) The colt is afraid of lightning. C) The colt's hooves on the ground as he runs sound like thunder. D) The snow muffles the noise of the colt's fleeing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The colt's hooves on the ground as he runs sound like thunder. 3. Which one of the following techniques helps to add a sense of lightheartedness to 'Gathering Leaves'? A) The regular rhyme scheme. B) Humorous metaphors. C) Dramatic irony. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The regular rhyme scheme. 4. What does" yet knowing how way leads to way" mean? A) You can never go home alone. B) It's easy to get lost on a path. C) One path takes you to the next. D) Paths are uncertain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One path takes you to the next. 5. Frost uses the image of two diverging roads in "The Road Not Taken" to symbolize- A) Sorrow and regret. B) Life's choices. C) The love of nature. D) The spirit of independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life's choices. 6. When did he move to England? A) After the death of his father. B) After the death of his daughter. C) After the death of his mother. D) After the death of his sister. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) After the death of his father. 7. In Nothing Gold Can Stay, why does the speaker personify nature in the following:Her hardest hue to hold / Her early leaf's a flower; / But only so an hour A) To set up a conflict between mankind and nature. B) To make the poem more interesting. C) To show that not even nature can "hold on to" beautiful things. D) To make it clear the poem is more about nature than about the human race. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To show that not even nature can "hold on to" beautiful things. 8. What does the crow shake down on the speaker? A) A dust of snow. B) A day of rue. C) A bad mood. D) A hemlock tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A dust of snow. 9. Where does the owner of the woods live? A) In the woods. B) On the road. C) In the village. D) In the city. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the village. 10. The metaphors in line 24 serve primarily to A) Reinforce the uniqueness of the speaker and his neighbor. B) Reveal the crops grown by the speaker and his neighbor. C) Emphasize the contrasting nature of the speaker and his neighbor. D) Provide a hint of the neighbor's attitude toward the speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emphasize the contrasting nature of the speaker and his neighbor. 11. The speaker uses personification in "The Runaway" to tell us what the colt's mother might have told him. What lesson might this mother have taught her colt? A) Keep out of the field in this kind of weather. B) The snow won't hurt you; you'll get used to it. C) The thunder makes a loud noise, but it is nothing to be frightened of. D) The men are there to protect you; trust them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The snow won't hurt you; you'll get used to it. 12. According to the poet, the other road had a "better claim" because A) It was a familiar path. B) It had never been used. C) It had lovely leaves on it. D) It had been less traveled on. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It had been less traveled on. 13. Which is an example of an allusion from the poem? A) "So Eden sank to grief / So dawn goes down to day". B) "Nature's first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold.". C) "Her early leaf's a flower; / But only so an hour.". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "So Eden sank to grief / So dawn goes down to day". 14. What technique(S):'saw snarled' A) Sibilance. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Tricolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sibilance. 15. The poet doubted if: A) He could ever finish his journey. B) He could join his friend. C) He could ever come back to travel the first road. D) He could meet his family again. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He could ever come back to travel the first road. 16. SBWoSE-What is the setting of this poem? A) In the woods on a bright, snowy afternoon. B) In a village on a dark, snowy evening. C) By a frozen lake on a bright, snowy afternoon. D) Near the woods on a dark, snowy evening. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Near the woods on a dark, snowy evening. 17. Which line explains how the traveler decided which road to take? A) Yet knowing how way leads on to way,. B) Because it was grassy and wanted wear;. C) I shall be telling this with a sigh. D) And both that morning equally lay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because it was grassy and wanted wear;. 18. For whose Presidential Inauguration did Robert Frost read his poems? A) General Dwight D. Eisenhower. B) John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK). C) Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ). D) Richard Milhouse Nixon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK). 19. What is the main problem in the poem? A) The speaker searches for quiet places. B) The speaker runs out of lighted cottages. C) The villagers dislike the passerby. D) The villagers dislike having their peace distrubed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker runs out of lighted cottages. 20. In "Fire and Ice" the speaker expresses views on the- A) Destructive force of ideas. B) Destructive force of emotions. C) Healing power of words. D) Healing power of natural phenomena. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Destructive force of emotions. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPoets QuizzesRobert Frost Quiz 1Robert 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