The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

The setting of the poem is

• in a hotel in the city

• in a country inn

• on a cow farm

• on a pirate's ship

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What is the main conflict in the poem?

• Tim is jealous of the highwayman.

• The redcoats kill Bess.

• The redcoats want to capture the highwayman.

• Bess's father does not approve of the highwayman.

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What is the resolution of the poem?

• Tim eavesdrops on Bess and the highwayman.

• The redcoats tie Bess up to the foot of her bed.

• Bess shoots herself to warn the highwayman.

• The ghosts of the highwayman and Bess return to the inn.

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How did the redcoats know to set a trap for the highwayman at the inn?

• The redcoats follow the highwayman after a robbery.

• The redcoats overhear the highwayman bragging about a robbery.

• Tim told the redcoats the highwayman was returning to the inn.

• A member of the highwayman's gang was captured and told the redcoats.

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What motivated Tim's behavior in the poem?

• He was Bess's protective older brother.

• He was honest and wanted to turn in a thief.

• He was in love with Bess and jealous of the highwayman.

• He was kicked out of the highwayman's gang and wanted revenge.

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Which of the following lines illustrate Bess's desperation to warn the highwayman the redcoats set a trap for him?

• "She writhed her hands until her fingers were wet with sweat or blood."

• "When they shot him down on the highway."

• "But they gagged his daughter, and bound her, to the foot of her narrow bed."

• "Up she stood to attention, with the muzzle beneath her breast."

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The poem's theme concerns feelings of

• delight

• everlasting love

• jealousy

• regret

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What type of figurative language and comparison is in the following line: "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas."

• alliteration; ghost and sea

• metaphor; moon and galleon

• simile; moon and sea

• personification; galleon and ghost

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What types of figurative language and comparison is in the following line: (choose 2) "the hours crawled by like years."

• metaphor; hours moved slow

• alliteration; hours moved slow

• simile; hours moved slow

• personification; hours moved slow

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What is a highwayman?

• Someone who robs travelers on the road

• A hitchhiker

• A road worker

• A horseman

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