Choice or Chance

The poet compares the world to

• a story book
• a film
• a stage
• a playground

In the second stage of life, man

• mewls and pukes
• goes to school unwillingly
• cries in his nurses lap
• sings and plays

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

As a young lover, according to the poet, man 

• learns to dance
• composes ballads for his beloved
• goes hunting in the forest
• does exercises to build his muscles

In the 5th stage of life, man is described as

• the lover

• the soldier

• the justice

• a senile man

"Creeping like a snail" is an example of 

• metaphor
• alliteration
• personification
• simile

The poem, "The Seven Ages of Man", is written by

• William Wordsworth
• William Shakespeare
• William Golding
• Alfred Lord Tennesy

All "have their exits and their entrances". Exits and entrances refer to

• birth and death

• beginning and end of play

• coming and going of actors

• the end of the Shakespearean era

The seven roles that a man plays corresponds to his

• chronological age in life

• desires

• mental age in life

• idea of a perfect life

The word which means crying in the poem

• weeping
• mewling
• puking
• woeful

The whining school boy is compared to

• a bearded pard

• a creeping snail

• a sighing furnace

• a fighting lion