This question has two parts. First, answer part A. Then, answer part B.
Which sentence best states the main theme of the poem?
Which lines from the poem best support the answer to the previous question?
Which statement best explains the importance of the first four lines of the poem?
Read these lines from the poem.
The meadow grass could be cemented down From growing under pavements of a town;
Which phrase best expresses the meaning of cemented down as it is used in the lines?
Which two statements explain how the rhyming words contribute to the meaning of the poem?
Read these lines from the poem.
. . . The brook was thrown Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
What does the phrase sewer dungeon suggest in the lines?
Read these lines from the poem.
How else dispose of an immortal force No longer needed? Staunch it at its source With cinder loads dumped down? . . .
Which word most closely matches the meaning of staunch as it is used in the lines?
Read the lines below. Then select the two excerpts from the poem that best support the main theme.
. . . Staunch it at its source / With cinder loads dumped down? The brook was thrown / Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone In fetid darkness still to live and run— And all for nothing it had ever done Except forget to go in fear perhaps. No one would know except for ancient maps That such a brook ran water. But I wonder If, from its being kept forever under, These thoughts may not have risen that so keep This new-built city from both work and sleep.
This question has two parts. First, answer part A. Then, answer part B.
Which sentence best explains the importance of the end of the poem?
Which detail from the poem best supports the answer to the previous question?