Those Winter Sundays

Which word best describes the poem Those Winter Sundays?

• Cheerful

• Nostalgic

• Resentful

• Abstract

Robert Hayden would describe his father as _____.

• Lazy

• Compassionate

• Hard working

• Jolly

The author's house was warm because

• They had a furnace.

• They lived in a warm climate.

• His mother was always using the stove.

• His father got up early everyday to warm it.

The term "blueblack cold" probably refers to

• The cold early morning of winter.

• Cold ice on the road.

• A room painted blue and black.

• A blue and black ice box.

What is this poem about?

• Hibernation

• Romantic love

• Familial love

• The changing of the seasons

What does the speaker come to understand when he’s older?

• His father expressed his love for him through work

• His father never loved him after all

• That people may live and die but the seasons will always change

• The importance of dressing warmly in wintertime

Who drove out the cold?

• Santa Claus

• Central heating

• The mother

• The father

Did the speaker ever get to tell his father about his change of heart?

• Yes

• No

• The poem doesn’t say for sure

• He tried to but was intercepted by extraterrestrials who then wrote this poem

The house suffers from chronic _______.

• Anxiety

• Angers

• Fatigue

• Happiness

What kind of work does the father do?

• Office work

• Train conducting

• Poetry writing

• Manual Labor