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6. Which phrase in the first stanza tells you whether the
speaker’s choice was hasty or deliberate?
a. not travel both
b. be one traveler
c. long I stood
d. as far as I could
7. If we look at the speaker’s choice of roads as a choice of
which life path to take, what does the point where the path
“ben[ds] in the undergrowth” signify?
a. an unfavorable choice
b. a positive turn
c. the speaker’s death
d. the unknowable future
8. An old song says that “a sigh is just a sigh,” but in fact, there
are many kids of sighs: sighs of unhappiness, sighs of longing,
sighs of satisfaction, sighs of exhaustion. When the speaker
says he will tell his story “with a sigh,” what kind of sigh do you
think it will be? Why?
a. a regretful sigh because he wishes he had taken the
other road
b. a satisfied sigh because he will see his choice as having
made a difference
c. a tired sigh because his life has been long and he is
ready to die
d. an unhappy sigh because, like most people, he has
made mistakes in his life
