Robinson, Dunbar, Chopin, Frost

Question 1

Title of Frost Poem where boy loses his hand

Answer 1

“Out-Out”

Question 2

Title of Frost Poem where two farmers “walk the line”

Answer 2

Mending Wall

Question 3

“Good Fences Make ___ _____”

Answer 3

Good Neighbors

Question 4

“Something there is that doesn’t ________ _ ______”

Answer 4

Love a Wall

Question 5

What took the boys hand off?

Answer 5

A buzz saw

Question 6

Who wrote “Story of an Hour?”

Answer 6

Kate Chopin

Question 7

Year Frost read at JFK’s inaguration

Answer 7

1961

Question 8

Frost lived from (years)

Answer 8

1874-1963

Question 9

Author of Richard Cory

Answer 9

Robinson

Question 10

Author of “We Wear the Mask”

Answer 10

Dunbar

Question 11

First African American author to support himself entirely by writing

Answer 11

Dunbar

Question 12

Dunbar lived from (years)

Answer 12

1872-1906

Question 13

What is “We Wear the Mask” about?

Answer 13

Having to hide from your true feelings; African Americans had to grin and bear their oppression because of the time period.

Question 14

Holiday that Dunbar said was ironic to him

Answer 14

Independence Day (4th of July)

Question 15

Robinson lived from (years)

Answer 15

1869-1935

Question 16

Richard Cory went home and _____________.

Answer 16

Put a bullet through his head

Question 17

Richard Cory was rich or poor?

Answer 17

Rich

Question 18

Royal position Richard Cory is related to

Answer 18

A king

Question 19

Speaker (s) of Richard Cory

Answer 19

The townspeople

Question 20

Speaker (s) of We Wear the Mask

Answer 20

African American community

Question 21

Speaker (s) of Mending Wall

Answer 21

A farmer who owns an apple orchard

Question 22

Type of trees the neighbor grows in Mending Wall

Answer 22

Pine trees

Question 23

In “Out-Out,” the boy’s first outcry was a ______ laugh.

Answer 23

rueful

Question 24

One job that Frost held was a

Answer 24

farmer or teacher

Question 25

Wife’s name in “Story of an Hour”

Answer 25

Louise Mallard

Question 26

Husband’s name in “Story of an Hour”

Answer 26

Brently Mallard

Question 27

The doctor in “Story of an Hour” thinks that Mrs. Mallard dies of

Answer 27

“joy that kills”

Question 28

Three types of irony

Answer 28

Situational, Verbal, Dramatic

Question 29

Dramatic irony

Answer 29

When the audience knows something that a particular character does not know.

Question 30

Situational irony

Answer 30

When the outcome of an event is the opposite of what you’d expect to happen.

Question 31

Dying of “the joy that kills” is what type of irony?

Answer 31

Verbal irony