"Fifteen" by William Stafford

What does the speaker find one summer?

• a tremble

• a headlight

• a motorcycle

What does the speaker do with the object he finds?

• He leads the motorcycle to the road.

• He embraces the tremble on the bridge.

• He switches off the headlight where it lay.

What feeling does the speaker indulge in?

• a feeling of freedom

• a feeling of happiness

• a feeling of anticipation

What does the speaker do when he finds the owner?

• The speaker keeps the owner's property from him.

• The speaker asks to buy the property from the owner.

• The speaker helps the owner walk to his own property.

How does the owner respond?

• He calls the speaker a good man.

• He sells his property to the speaker.

• He asks if the speaker had seen anything.

What is the theme of the poem?

• It is difficult to make the right decision when you are tempted.

• Choose honesty over the desire to do something dishonest.

• Making an "adult" decision is difficult when you aren't yet an adult.

• All of the above

What direction of the Bridge on what street?

• east of the bridge on Sixteenth Street

• south of the bridge on Seventeenth Street

• north of the bridge on Seventeenth Street

He sat on the leather seat, INDULGING his imagination as his mind...

• flew freely/letting his imagination run "wild"

• was sadly thinking

• was greedily thinking

The driver was COMING TO, so the narrator helped him over to his motorcycle. The driver left when he...

• found his bike.

• told the narrator that he was a "good man" and was fully awake

• learned he'd had an accident.

Who is the narrator?

• The author/poet

• unknown storyteller

• a young boy who isn't yet a man but not exactly a child