Sam McGee Day 2 Analyze Literature & Comprehension

Sam McGee Day 2

Analyze Literature & Comprehension

Multiple Choice

How did Cap feel about this promise later?

• regret
• happy
• sad
• confused

Multiple Choice

Sam made a last request to his traveling companion, Cap. What was the request?

• death
• murder
• gold
• cremation

Multiple Choice

Why was Sam travelingin the frigid Arctic? He was:

• Looking for love
• looking for sun
• looking for gold
• looking for pain

Multiple Choice

Why is it important for Sam McGee to be cremated?

• Sam McGee was a criminal in Tennessee & he wanted to leave no evidence.

• Sam McGee wants to go to heaven.

• Sam McGee suffers from the cold & wanted to die in warmth.

• Sam McGee hopes his cremation will keep others warm.

Multiple Choice

Why does Cap agree to cremate Sam?

• Because it was Sam's dying request.

• Because Cap and Sam were best friends.

• Because that is what all people want when they die.

• Because Cap disliked Sam.

Multiple Choice

What is Sam McGee most afraid of?

• Sam is most afraid of the cold.

• Sam is most afraid of dying.

• Sam is most afraid of the snow.

• Sam is most afraid of the icy water.

Multiple Choice

Who is the narrator of this poem?

• Sam McGee

• Cap

• Robert Service

• The narrator is unknown

Multiple Choice

What month did Sam die?

• November

• January

• December

• August

Multiple Choice

Where did Sam McGee die?

• Yukon

• Mount Everest

• Appalachian mtn.

• Tennessee

Multiple Choice

Where is Sam McGee from?

• Alaska

• Massachusetts

• Tennessee

• New York

Multiple Choice

Which is the best overall theme of the poem?

• With age comes wisdom.

• Family can be more than just blood.

• Sometimes it's difficult to keep a promise.

• Sometimes the good die young.

Multiple Choice

Why did the speaker say that "the heavens scowled" in the twelfth stanza?

• Sam was upset because the speaker was cremating him.

• The speaker felt guilty that he was doing something wrong by cremating his friend in that manner.

• He was just indicating that there was storm brewing.

• He felt that Sam was frowning at him because it took so long to cremate him.

Multiple Choice

What does the speaker's diction in "frozen chum" and "stuffed in Sam McGee" indicate about the tone?

• It shifts from gloomy to more lighthearted.

• It shifts from suspenseful to gloomy.

• It shifts from lighthearted to melancholy.

• It shifts from disheartened to perplexed.

Multiple Choice

What is "the thing" and "the hateful thing" that Cap refers to in stanzas 8-9?

• Sam's corpse

• the dogs

• himself

• the weather

Multiple Choice

Why is Cap "horror-driven" in the seventh stanza?

• He cannot go any further.

• He is tired of facing the bitter cold.

• He has just discovered that his dogs are starving.

• He cannot stand looking at Sam's body any longer.

Multiple Choice

What does the metaphor "land of death" indicate?

• It's personifying the weather in Alaska.

• It shows that the climate is harsh and difficult to survive in.

• It reveals that everyone who ventures there dies.

• It means that many people are buried there.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best foreshadows Sam McGee's death?

• "queer sights"

• "It's the cursed cold"

• "the only one to whimper was Sam McGee"

• "he looked ghastly pale"

Multiple Choice

Which of these indicates the theme of the poem?

• "Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows"

• "A pal's last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail"

• "There wasn't a breath in that land of death"

• "I do not know how long in the snow I wrestled with grisly fear"

Multiple Choice

Which device is used in "I'm chilled clean through to the bone"?

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

What does it mean that "through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail"?

• The weather was windy and cold, which was painful to the speaker's skin.

• The cold was being personified as hitting the speaker's face and causing injury.

• The weather added to the overall conflict of the speaker.

• The speaker's jacket was being blown open by the breeze.

Multiple Choice

Which device is used in "it stabbed like a driven nail"?

• rhyme scheme

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Multiple Choice

What is the most likely synonym for the word "queer" as it's used in the first stanza?

• happy

• cold

• beautiful

• strange

Multiple Choice

What's a benefit of the first person point of view?

• It adds humor because you know exactly how the speaker feels about his dead friend.

• You understand how Sam McGee felt about Cap.

• It allows you to focus only on the speaker's actions and dialogue.

• The reader can know what both characters are thinking about the journey.

Multiple Choice

What is the most likely setting of the poem?

• California/Arizona border

• Texas/New Mexico border

• Alaska/Canada border

• New York/Rhode Island border

Multiple Choice

Which point of view is this written in?

• first person

• second person

• third person objective

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

Multiple Choice

When would the reader learn about the protagonist and what a "boring day" is for that character?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Multiple Choice

When would the CONFLICT be introduced and get worse in the story?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Multiple Choice

What part of the plot diagram is illustrated in step 5?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Multiple Choice

What part of the plot diagram is illustrated in step 4?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Multiple Choice

What part of the plot diagram is illustrated in step 3?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Multiple Choice

What part of the plot diagram is illustrated in step 1?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Multiple Choice

What part of the plot diagram is illustrated in step 6?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution