EOG Skills 3

EOG Skills 3

Multiple Choice

Where does the speaker of the poem go?

• to the moon

• to a hazel wood

• to the sun

• to the bottom of a stream

Multiple Choice

What does the second stanza of the poem describe?

• a glimmering girl

• an old wanderer

• a trout in a stream

• a white moth in flight

Multiple Choice

The speaker is not feeling well at the beginning of the poem.What evidence from the poem supports this conclusion?

• “I went out to the hazel wood”

• “a fire was in my head”

• “I dropped the berry in a stream”

• “I went to blow the fire a-flame”

Multiple Choice

Who is probably the speaker of the poem?

• a young man who likes to pick the silver apples of the moon

• wandering Aengus

• a glimmering girl

• a young woman who likes to pick the golden apples of the sun

Multiple Choice

What is the effect of the words “flickering out” (line 6) and “glimmering” (line 13)?

• They hint at what is going to happen at the very end of the poem.

• They create a powerful image in the reader’s mind.

• They show how upset and troubled the speaker is.

• They slow down the meter of the poem with long syllables.

Multiple Choice

Read these lines from the poem:I dropped the berry in a streamAnd caught a little silver trout.When I had laid it on the floorI went to blow the fire a-flame, (10)But something rustled on the floor,And someone called me by my name:What does the word “it” in line 9 refer to?

• “the berry” (line 7)

• “a stream” (line 7)

• the “trout” (line 8)

• “the floor” (line 9)