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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the flower in "Design"?
(a) Red.
(b) Purple.
(c) Yellow.
(d) White.

2. What is the first thing the wasp in "The White-Tailed Wasp" mistakes for a fly?
(a) A series of nails.
(b) A series of nuts.
(c) A series of dots.
(d) A series of screws.

3. Where are all the other animals in "The Runaway"?
(a) Out at work.
(b) There are no other animals.
(c) In their stalls.
(d) In the house.

4. "A Serious Step Lightly Taken" is a poem written in six four-line ___________.
(a) Idylles.
(b) Rhymes.
(c) Couplets.
(d) Stanzas.

5. According to Frost In "Spring Pools," what will happen to the puddles?
(a) The kids will splash in them and empty them.
(b) They will evaporate.
(c) They will be sucked into the ground below.
(d) The roots of trees will drink them up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the man move from the woods in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?

2. What kind of poem is "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same"?

3. "The Runaway" is about a young horse who is not used to snow in _______________.

4. In "The Flower Boat." where do the unused fishing dories find themselves?

5. How many sets of five lines are contained in "Bereft"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the observation Frost closes with in "The Bear"?

2. How does Frost describe the constellation in "Canis Major"?

3. What will the pools in "Spring Pools" give life to?

4. What miracle foes "Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight" contemplate?

5. What does the cow do in "A Cow in Apple Time" once she is on a sugar high?

6. What does the character confess in the final line of "Bereft"?

7. What does Frost remind himself of in "The Onset"?

8. What happens to the town the character in "The Census-Taker" is responsible for?

9. What does Frost observe about fireflies in "Fireflies in the Garden"?

10. What does the poem "Departmental" describe?

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