Friday Final Poem Exam
1.In Sonnet 73, the narrator compares himself to a tree in which season?
A. Spring
B. Summer
C. Autumn
D. Winter
2. Which poet wrote a “Holy Sonnet” addressed to God?
A. Emily Bronte
B. William Shakespeare
C. T.S. Eliot
D. John Donne
3. In “I Ask my Mother to Sing,” the narrator’s mother sings about her childhood in:
A. China
B. Mexico
C. Germany
D. Russia
4. The author of “The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner” based his poem on his experienced duirn
which war?
A. Iraq War
B. Vietnam War
C. World War II
D. Civil War
5. In “Mending Wall,” what proverb or saying does the speaker’s neighbor quote?
A. “Fish and visitors stink in three days”
B. “Birds of a feather flock together”
C. “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty”
D. “Good fences make good neighbors”
6. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” begins with a quote from which other poet?
A. John Keats
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Robert Frost
D. Dante Aligheri
7. The speaker in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” compares himself to which figure?
A. Hamlet
B. John the Baptist
C. Socrates
D. Michelangelo
8. Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “The Mother” deals with which issue or conflict?
A. Child abuse
B. Abortion
C. Alcoholism
D. Single-mother families