Q. What does the wife see through the window at the beginning of “Home Burial”?
a) Horsemen approaching
b) The coroner’s wagon
c) Her child’s grave
d) Her husband returning
Q. 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?
a) Frost is implying that the speaker is insane
b) The opinion of the horse could represent the opinion of society; the speaker recognizes that, in the eyes of his peers, his actions are unusual
c) Frost is trying to imbue his otherwise somber poem with a bit of humor
d) The talking horse suggests that animals, as representatives of the natural world, are wise and have important things to say to us
Q. What does the neighbor say in “Mending Wall”?
a) “There goes the neighborhood.”
b) “Won’t you be my neighbor?”
c) “Good fences make good neighbors.”
d) “How’s the wife and kids?”
Q. At one point in “Mending Wall,” the speaker describes his neighbor as…
a) “an old-stone savage.”
b) “a tough old bird.”
c) “an ornamental frog.”
d) “a peg-legged manure man.”
Q. What does the speaker describe as “just another outdoor game” in the poem “Mending Wall”?
a) Badminton
b) Fixing the stone wall that marks the boundary between his and his neighbor’s properties
c) Rugby
d) Hide-and-seek
Q. How would you characterize the line lengths in “After Apple-Picking”?
a) They follow a strict pattern
b) They are the same throughout
c) They vary considerably
d) They are irrelevant to the poem
Q. Why does the child’s grave sit on the family’s property (in “Home Burial”)?
a) The family lives in a municipal cemetery
b) Family graveyards were common on New England farms
c) The graveyard has been moved there by a developer
d) The burial was cheaper that way
Q. Frost’s poetry is primarily based upon New England life. Where was he actually born?
a) California
b) Nevada
c) Massachusetts
d) Pennsylvania
Q. This poem’s title originally comes from a line in Shakespeare’s play, “Macbeth.” Which poem is it?
a) Out, Out
b) Departmental
c) Desert Places
d) A Boundless Moment
Q. “The land was ours before we were the land’s” comes from what Frost poem?
a) Directive
b) The Gift Outright
c) Desert Places
d) Departmental