At the end of which of the following lines would you stop?

As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.

Because "Birches" is written in blank verse....

it contains meter but not rhyme

A boy who swings birches experiences....

the pleasure of both heaven and earth

The best description of the way "Birches" is written would be to say that it....

is close tro conversational English

What view of life does the speaker express...

A good life combines earthly life and spiritual yearnings

The image that starts the speaker onto the train of thought that guides the poem is a(n)...

some trees curve down to the earth

The speaker dreams of becoming a birch swinger once again when...

he is tired of the cares of human life

At the end of which of the following lines would you pause briefly?

"I like to think some boy's been swinging them."

Why wouldn't this poem be about oaks or maples?

Birches are slender and bendable

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Birches by Robert Frost

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1
At the end of which of the following lines would you stop?
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
"With all her matter of fact about the ice storm...
"Shattering and avalanching on the snow crust--..."
"And so not carrying the tree away
2
Because "Birches" is written in blank verse....
it contains neither rhyme nor meter
it contains meter but not rhyme
its lines vary widely in length
every other line rhymes
3
A boy who swings birches experiences....
the anger of the owner of the trees
terrifying near-death vision
the pleasure of both heaven and earth
minor injuries
4
The best description of the way "Birches" is written would be to say that it....
is close tro conversational English
sounds exactly like a sonnet
contains a lot of dialect
has a very stilted style
5
What view of life does the speaker express...
A good life combines earthly life and spiritual yearnings
The only wisdom lies in seeking heaven
Pleasure is the only worthwhile pursuit
Earthly life is a sham
6
What has caused the birches to bend?
Ice during a winter storm
Windstorm
Boys swinging from the treetops
A problem with the growth of the seedling
7
The image that starts the speaker onto the train of thought that guides the poem is a(n)...
pile of cut logs
some trees curve down to the earth
young saplings are sprouting
young man who injured self climbing trees
8
The speaker of the poem...
is a boy
no personal authority
the father
is a man
9
The poem compares the trees' trailing their leaves on the ground to ...
boys playing baseball
boys playing in the trees
girls drying their hair
heaven
10
The speaker dreams of becoming a birch swinger once again when...
he is tired of the cares of human life
he reaches a stumbling block in his writing
it is painful to walk trough the pathless forest
the days are beautiful and everything is perfect
11
At the end of which of the following lines would you pause briefly?
"I like to think some boy's been swinging them."
"When I see birches bend to left and right..."
"loaded with ice and a sunny winter morning..."
"Across the lines of straighter darker trees..."
12
Why wouldn't this poem be about oaks or maples?
Oaks and maples don't grow in the author's area
The words oaks and maples don't sound right in the poem
The trees the author saw were birches
Birches are slender and bendable
13
Birches, ice, snow, and dark branches tell you that the visual imagery in "Birches" is...
rainbow hued
loud and clattering
mostly black and white
tinged with the pink and violet of twilight
14
The metaphor "heaps of broken glass" describes...
boy's injury
the speaker's eyeglasses
sawdust at the foot of tree stumps
shattered ice

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