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Directions: Read the poems and answer the multiple choice questions based on the poems.
1. Identify the tone of the poem from the first four lines.
A. introspective B. energetic
C. angry D. happy
2. How does the tone affect the poem’s meaning?
A. It shows the poet’s anger B. It helps the flow of his thoughts.
C. The tone makes the message D. It does not affect the meaning
serious and important.
3. The rivers are a metaphor that Hughes uses for:
A. Freedom B. His connection to Africa
C. The pyramids D. His love for water.
4. The rivers are compared to human veins in order to:
A. Show how blood flows B. Reinforce his African ancestry
C. Provide the image of mountains. D. Prove that blood is thicker than water
5. Why does the poet repeat the simile: “My soul has grown deep like the rivers”?
A. Hughes wants to emphasize B. He ran out of creative thoughts.
the importance of his African
heritage.
C. Create a joyful tone. D. Show how deep the river is
6. What does the use of dawn and sunset as imagery reveal to the reader?
A. How old the rivers are B. The passage of time.
C. The rotation of the earth. D. The importance of the sun to the author.
7. What literary device does the repetition of the following lines demonstrate:
“I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it
lulled me to sleep”?
A. Assonance B End Rhyme
C. Parallelism D. Simile
O Captain! My Captain!
by Walt Whitman
*Written after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
9. The following line demonstrates an example of alliteration:
A. “for you the flag is flung” B. “O the bleeding drops of red”
C. Fallen cold and dead. D. “This arm beneath your head!”
11. The “ship” that is “anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done” is a metaphor for:
A. the United States at the end of B. CSS Hunley
the Civil War
C. USS Constitution D. Lincoln’s coffin
13. From the contradictory tones, the reader can infer that:
A. the speaker is still upset over B. the speaker is conflicted about his
the Civil War emotions
C. the speaker is excited D. the speaker is angry at Lincoln for dying
15. How does the imagery in the line “his lips are pale and still” affect the tone?
A. creates a joyful image B. makes the author happy that Lincoln is at
peace
C. creates a somber atmosphere D. It creates a quiet reflective feeling in the
reader
16. Why does the author use parallelism at the end of each stanza?
A. To remind the reader that the B. To reinforce the finality of death
war is over.
C. To show the speaker’s grief and D. Because that is how the poem is written
suffering.
C. This arm beneath your head! D. Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
Notes:
1. Players – actors 10. Hose – stockings
2. Ages – periods of life 11. Shank – leg
3. Mewling – whimpering, crying like a baby 12. Sans – lacking, without
4. Pard – a panther
5. Jealous in honor – very concerned about his honor
6. Justice – a judge
7. Capon – a roasted chicken. The speaker is implying that the
judge has been bribed with the present of a fat chicken.
8.Wise saws and modern instances: wise sayings and modern examples that show the truth of the sayings.
9. Pantaloons – a thin, foolish old man – originally a character in old comedies
20. The end of the poem leaves a depressing image. If we were to write and add a simile to the
poem, which one would enhance this image?
A. “a man with angelic smiles” B. “an actor and a baby are one”
C. “sleeping with babies and pups” D. “a half-dead corpse abandoned like a forgotten
prop”
21. The author lists the many parts that a person plays on a stage in the same order throughout the
poem such as:
“At first the infant…”
“And then the lover…”
“Then the soldier…”
This is an example of:
A. alliteration B. onomatopoeia
C. parallelism D. personification
23. If this poem had mentioned a specific actor or a real play, that would be a(n):
A. Allusion B. Figurative language
C. Simile D. Imagery
24. The line that describes the “young lover, sighing like furnace,” leads the reader to imagine:
A. A tired man B. An asthmatic teenager
C. a hot lover D. a warm home
26. At the very end of the poem, the man’s voice turns “toward childish treble” because:
A. He’s Justin Bieber B. He has become like a baby again
C. He has been kicked D. He has died