Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken" - Read

Question 1

note

Answer 1

• interpreted as being about the path less traveled rather than about the regret that can come with being forced to make a choice

Question 2

how many lines are in each stanza of Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”?

Answer 2

five

Question 3

Robert Frost’s ability to write about the countryside using beautiful imagery was probably influence by

Answer 3

his life on the farm in the New Hampshire countryside

Question 4

in line 12 of “The Road Not Taken” Frost is describing

Answer 4

how leaves on the ground turn black when they are “trodden” or walked on

Question 5

according to Frost in his poem “The Road Not Taken,” what kind of difference did taking one road over another make

Answer 5

Frost does not say

Question 6

in lines 14-15 below “The Road Not Taken” Frost is saying that
“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back”

Answer 6

once you start down a certain road, it leads you on and on and makes it hard to come back