A Brook in the City by Robert Frost
By Regina McWhorter
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10 Questions
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Question 1
1.
This question has two parts. First, answer part A. Then, answer part B.
Part A
Which sentence best states the main theme of the poem?
This question has two parts. First, answer part A. Then, answer part B.
Part A
Which sentence best states the main theme of the poem?
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Question 2
2.
Which lines from the poem best support the answer to the previous question?
Which lines from the poem best support the answer to the previous question?
A Brook in the City
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The farm house lingers, though averse to square
With the new city street it has to wear
A number in. But what about the brook
That held the house as in an elbow-crook?
I ask as one who knew the brook, its strength
And impulse, having dipped a finger-length
And made it leap my knuckle, having tossed
A flower to try its currents where they crossed.
The meadow grass could be cemented down
From growing under pavements of a town;
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Question 3
3.
Which statement best explains the importance of the first four lines of the poem?
Which statement best explains the importance of the first four lines of the poem?
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Question 4
4.
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?
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?
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Question 5
5.
Which two statements explain how the rhyming words contribute to the meaning of the poem?
Which two statements explain how the rhyming words contribute to the meaning of the poem?
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Question 6
6.
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.
. . . The brook was thrown Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
What does the phrase sewer dungeon suggest in the lines?
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Question 7
7.
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 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?
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Question 8
8.
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.
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.
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Question 9
9.
This question has two parts. First, answer part A. Then, answer part B.
Part A
Which sentence best explains the importance of the end of the poem?
This question has two parts. First, answer part A. Then, answer part B.
Part A
Which sentence best explains the importance of the end of the poem?
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Question 10
10.
Part B
Which detail from the poem best supports the answer to the previous question?
Part B
Which detail from the poem best supports the answer to the previous question?