The road not taken

Question 1

The Road Not Taken’ was written by

Answer 1

Robert Frost

Question 2

The speaker stood at the intersection of?

Answer 2

Two roads.

Question 3

The speaker felt sorry because?

Answer 3

He could not travel on both roads.

Question 4

The speaker took the road….

Answer 4

less traveled on.

Question 5

the poem represents?

Answer 5

Choices we make in life.

Question 6

The entire poem is?

Answer 6

A metaphor

Question 7

What did the speaker see in the yellow wood?

Answer 7

Two paths diverging in different directions.

Question 8

How was one path different from the other?

Answer 8

Both paths are the same, but the speaker thinks he chose the less traveled path.

Question 9

Which path had been walked on that morning before the poet traveled on one?

Answer 9

None of them.

Question 10

When the speaker chose one of the paths what did he hope to do?

Answer 10

To come back and to try the other path.

Question 11

In the line “Oh I kept the first for another day! “, “the first” refers to ?

Answer 11

The road which he did not chose.

Question 12

Frost uses the image of two diverging roads to symbolize?

Answer 12

Choices we need to make in life.

Question 13

According to the speaker, the second road has “the better claim” because it…

Answer 13

had been less traveled on.

Question 14

This poem might have special relevance for you if you…

Answer 14

have to make an important decision in your life.

Question 15

What does the speaker decide to do?

Answer 15

Take the other road.

Question 16

What do you think is the meaning of the sentence: “yet knowing how way leads on to way”?

Answer 16

How in life, every decision you make will leads you to another decision.

Question 17

“Frost uses nature as a background. He usually begins a poem with an observation of something in nature and then moves toward a connection to some human situation.” – The Pastoral Art of Robert Frost by John F. Lynen. How this sentence is expressed in the poem?

Answer 17

The poem starts by a description of nature: a wood in autumn. The wood has two roads, and the speaker talks about which road to choose. The choice of roads connects to situations where people have to make decisions and can’t come back to the same point in life.

Question 18

The traveler could not see where the road was going because…

Answer 18

it wasn’t straight and the grass was messy.

Question 19

Why does the speaker say he will “be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence”?

Answer 19

When he looks back at his life and the decisions he made, he may be sorry / happy about his decision / about the road he took.