Poetry Unit

Practice Test Questions 3

1 NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room,2 And hermits are contented with their cells,3 And students with their pensive citadels;4 Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,5 Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,6 High as the highest peak of Furness fells,7 Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: 8 In truth the prison unto which we doom 9 Ourselves no prison is: and hence for me,10 In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound11 Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground;12 Pleased if some souls (for such there needs must be)13 Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,14 Should find brief solace there, as I have found.

1. In line 3, the phrase “pensive citadels” can best be rephrased asa. towers in which students are imprisonedb. castles under attackc. dreary fortressesd. hideaways for contemplation

1 NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room,2 And hermits are contented with their cells,3 And students with their pensive citadels;4 Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,5 Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,6 High as the highest peak of Furness fells,7 Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: 8 In truth the prison unto which we doom 9 Ourselves no prison is: and hence for me,10 In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound11 Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground;12 Pleased if some souls (for such there needs must be)13 Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,14 Should find brief solace there, as I have found.

2. The “we” of line 8 could refer to all of the following EXCEPTa. criminalsb. poetsc. nunsd. hermitse. students

1 NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room,2 And hermits are contented with their cells,3 And students with their pensive citadels;4 Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,5 Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,6 High as the highest peak of Furness fells,7 Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: 8 In truth the prison unto which we doom 9 Ourselves no prison is: and hence for me,10 In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound11 Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground;12 Pleased if some souls (for such there needs must be)13 Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,14 Should find brief solace there, as I have found.

3. The figure of speech in line 11, “Within the Sonnet’s scanty plot of ground” isa. a simile comparing the writing of poetry to a fieldb. a simile comparing the poet and a farmerc. a metaphor comparing the sonnet and a small piece of landd. a metaphor comparing writing poetry and gardening