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"Musee des Beaux Arts" Comprehension Quiz

Authored by Kerry Evans

English

9th - 10th Grade

CCSS covered

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"Musee des Beaux Arts" Comprehension Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

According to the speaker in “Musée des Beaux Arts,” while someone is “eating or opening a window or just walking,” (lines 4–5) someone else is

painting a picture.

experiencing suffering.

causing them to suffer

waiting for the miraculous birth.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

. In lines 9–10 "They never forgot / That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course," the word they refers to the

children.

aged.

sufferers.

Old Masters

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The speaker in the poem says that for the ploughman in Breughel’s painting, Icarus’s fall “was not an important failure” (line 17). What does this suggest about Auden's view of how people respond to the suffering of others?

Failure is not an option when human suffering is involved.

People must never become too busy to respond to suffering

People often allow suffering to interfere with their work.

People evaluate suffering by how it affects them personally.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to lines 5–8, old people are “passionately waiting for the miraculous birth,” but why do children “not specially want it to happen?”

Skating on a pond is less important.

The event would have no effect on them.

The Old Masters “were never wrong.”

The children must still “go on with their doggy life.”

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

According to the speaker, suffering and miracles are alike because both

occur in the midst of mundane events.

can never attract attention to themselves

follow a course that leads to dreadful martyrdom.

elicit similar responses in people, dogs, and horses.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following quotes best reflects Auden’s idea about human nature?

“Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky”

“On a pond at the edge of the wood: / They never forgot”

“disappearing into the green / Water; and the expensive delicate ship”

“how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster”

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What is it that the Old Masters mentioned in the poem clearly understood?

the subjects of many old paintings

the dreadful martyrdom of a dog's life

the suffering involved in miraculous birth

the human position toward suffering

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

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