Page 15 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit

7. The central tone in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is one of
A. regret that one can only follow one path in life, and that the path one
chooses shuts one off to the opportunities of others.
B. contentment and satisfaction that one has chosen the best path for oneself,
even if others shun that path.
C. regret that one has chosen the wrong path.
D. pity for those who do not choose the less-traveled path.

8. In George Herbert’s "Love Bade Me Welcome," Love symbolizes
A. innocence.
B. hope.
C. Celia.
D. God.

9. The poet being alluded to in Milton’s “On his Blindness” is
A. Milton himself.
B. Homer.
C. Shakespeare.
D. Marlowe.

10. In his “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars,” Richard Lovelace’s speaker compares the title
character to
A. a nunnery.
B. a rose.
C. a mouse.
D. a starry night.

11. Which of the following is NOT an allusion from Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”?
A. “Love you ten years before the Flood…”
B. “Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side…”
C. “Till the conversion of the Jews…”
D. “Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”

12. An elegy is
A. a short poem about love.
B. a poem of lament and sorrow.
C. written on a tombstone.
D. written to memorialize someone important.

13. In his “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802,” William Wordsworth
compares _________ to a garment.

A. Xanadu
B. London
C. Celia
D. Westminster Bridge

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