The Cremation of Sam Mcgee

Where is Sam McGee from?

• Alaska

• Massachusetts

• Tennessee

• New York

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What month did Sam die?

• November

• January

• December

• August

Who is the narrator of this poem?

• Sam McGee

• Cap

• Robert Service

• The narrator is unknown

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Which point of view is this written in?

• first person

• second person

• third person objective

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

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Why most likely is it important to Sam McGee that he be cremated?

• A. Sam McGee was a criminal in Tennessee and he wants to leave no traces.

• B. Sam McGee wants to go to heaven.

• C. Sam McGee deeply suffers from the cold, and so he wants to die in warmth and fire.

• D. Sam McGee hopes that the fire from his cremation will help keep the others warm.

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Which passage from the poem most strongly supports the answer to Question 5?

• A. “In the days to come, though my lips were numb, in my heart how I cursed that load. / In the long, long night, by the lone firelight...”

• B. “On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.”

• C. “...it’s my awful dread of the icy grave that pains; / So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you’ll cremate my last remains.”

• D. “A pal’s last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail; / And we started on at the streak of dawn...”

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Which device is used in "where the cotton blooms and blows"?

• personification

• allusion

• alliteration

• hyperbole

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Which of the following reveals why Sam McGee was in Alaska?

• "God only knows."

• "the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell"

• "the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe"

• "you'll cremate my last remains"

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Which device is used in "I'm chilled clean through to the bone"?

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is "the thing" and "the hateful thing" that Cap refers to in stanzas 8-9?

• Sam's corpse

• the dogs

• himself

• the weather

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