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Quiz: Poetry Unit Score for this quiz: 75.2 out of 80 Submitted Feb 17 at 2:17pm This attempt took 72 minutes. Question 1 0 / 1.6 pts Reading Comprehension - The Chimney Sweeper Download Reading Comprehension - The Chimney Sweeper The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “Angel who had a bright key /And … open'd the coffins and set them all free” (line 13-14) represents __________. You Answered those who exploit the boys but would one day set them free Correct Answer an anti-child labor activist or legislator or benefactor or law society the church Question 2 1.6 / 1.6 pts

Reading Comprehension - The Chimney Sweeper Download Reading Comprehension - The Chimney Sweeper The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho' the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” This is dramatic irony in the sense that __________. Correct! the poet knows and sees more than the child does the child knows and sees more than the poet does both are ignorant and do not know what exactly is going on both provide an accurate explanation of the situation Question 3 1.6 / 1.6 pts Reading Comprehension - The Chimney Sweeper Download Reading Comprehension - The Chimney Sweeper In lines 7-8, the narrator is trying to ________ Tom when he tells him, “Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head's bare, / You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.” admonish

scold Correct! comfort rebuke Question 4 1.6 / 1.6 pts Reading Comprehension - The Chimney Sweeper Download Reading Comprehension - The Chimney Sweeper In line 3, the boy is calling out his trade; instead of “sweep,” he cries “weep weep weep weep.” This is the poet’s way of telling the reader that __________. the boy is being taught by experience the boy knows his plight and is satirizing those who take advantage of him. Correct! the boy is too young to articulate clearly, let alone sweep chimneys

the boy is weeping out loud in the streets Question 5 1.6 / 1.6 pts Reading Comprehension - The Chimney Sweeper Download Reading Comprehension - The Chimney Sweeper The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho' the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” This is an ironic expression of the narrator’s __________. disagreement with the poet opinion that life is fair idea that antidote to harm is duty. Correct! childlike trust Question 6 1.6 / 1.6 pts The phrase “Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest” (line 8) in William Shakespeare’s "That Time of Year…" is a metaphor for __________.

sickness Correct! sleep dreaming hell Question 7 1.6 / 1.6 pts Line 3 of George Herbert’s “Virtue” reads: “The dew shall weep thy fall tonight.” The word “fall” means __________. Correct! end decrease dawn

original sin Question 8 1.6 / 1.6 pts Line 7 of George Herbert’s “Virtue” reads: “Thy root is ever in its grave.” The word “grave” is metonymy for __________. photosynthesis a coffin death Correct! the earth Question 9 1.6 / 1.6 pts The last 5 lines of “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley reads: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” / Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.” The crumbling statue, “decay,” “colossal wreck,” “boundless and bare /…lone and level sands” all communicate thematic ideas of __________.

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