IReady Assessment 1: The Old Oaken Bucket

Which two statements best describe how the second stanza of the poem contributes to the poem's overall meaning?

• It expresses how much the speaker looked forward to a cold drink from the well.

• It develops the setting by listing the different features of the family's farm.

• It provides detailed information about how to operate an old-fashioned well.

• It describes the speaker's fond memories of drawing water from the well.

• It explains why the iron on the bucket felt like it was glowing with heat.

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Read line 17 of the poem: "Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing..." What does the "emblem of truth" in this line refer to?

• the deep stone well

• the well's wooden bucket

• the well's white pebbles

• the water from the well

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What does the illustration help the reader understand about the poem?

• that the speaker remembers how difficult his life on the farm used to be

• that the speaker feels joy in recalling simple things from his childhood

• that the speaker is bothered by how much work it used to be just to get a drink

• that the speaker is saddened by how far his childhood home was from other people

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Part A: Which of the following best expresses a central theme of the poem?

• A poor life on a farm is better than a rich one in town.

• Remembering better times can result in deep regrets.

• Living in the past keeps one from enjoying the present.

• Good memories take on greater meaning as time passes.

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Part B: Which line from the poem best supports the answer from Part A (the central theme)?

• "How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood"

• "The cot of my father, the dairy house nigh it"

• "And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell"

• "Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter sips"

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CCSS.RL.4.4

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Which lines from the text support the idea that the narrator frequently went to the well after working all morning on the farm?

• "That moss covered bucket I hailed as a treasure"

• "For often at noon, when returned from the field"

• "The purest and sweetest that nature can yield"

• "How ardent I seized it with hands that were glowing"

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