At the opening of the poem, Hamelin is overrun by rats. Name at least three
different ways in which the towsfolk suffer.
Question 2
2.
What characteristics of the Mayor and the Corporation are stressed in lines
23-54?
Question 3
3.
Describe the Pied Piper's appearance. (Part V)
Question 4
4.
What does the Pied Piper claim he can do?
Question 5
5.
What does he use as proof or evidence that he can do what he claims?
Question 6
6.
What agreement is reached between the Mayor/Corporation and the Pied Piper?
Question 7
7.
How does the piper lure the rats away from Hamelin?
Question 8
8.
Where did the piper lead the rats to?
Question 9
9.
The Mayor and the Corporation refuse to live up to their end of the agreement.
Is this behavior consisten with their characters?
Question 10
10.
What is the Piper's revenge for their treachery?
Question 11
11.
Just as one rat survived to tell the tale, one child was left behind to tell the
tale. What did that child reveal to the townspeople about the Piper's music?
Question 12
12.
How do the people of Hanover commemorate or remember the tragedy? (Name at least
2 ways.)
Question 13
13.
The poem ends with four lines of advice to Willy, the little boy for whom
Browning wrote the poem. What is the advice?