Family & Home: Poetry Assessment 2 of 3

The following question applies to William Butler Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter," which appears on pp. 280–81. The "storm . . . howling" (l.1) could be understood to mean

• the wind and rain outside

• the speaker's troubled mind

• the daughter's tantrum

• the wind and rain outside and the speaker's troubled mind

The following question applies to William Butler Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter," which appears on pp. 280–81. What is meant by the word "such" (l.19)?

• strangers

• eyes

• vain beauties

• for instance

The following question applies to William Butler Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter," which appears on pp. 280–81. The speaker's criticism in lines 19–24 of those who "Lose . . . / The heart-revealing intimacy / That chooses right" is reiterated in which of the following lines?

• "fine women eat / A crazy salad with their meat" (ll. 30–31)

• "May she become a flourishing hidden tree" (l.41)

• "Nor but in merriment begin a chase" (l.45)

• "Assault and battery of the wind / Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" (ll. 55–56)

The following question applies to William Butler Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter," which appears on pp. 280–81. In the cautionary tale the speaker tells about "the loveliest woman born" (ll. 59–64), all of the following happen EXCEPT

• she loses her looks

• she marries an unpleasant old man

• she loses her wealth

• she is filled with hatred

• she loses the respect of decent people

The following question applies to William Butler Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter," which appears on pp. 280–81. In the final stanza (ll. 73–80), the speaker hopes his daughter will have

• a marriage of like minds

• a grand formal wedding

• a husband who is in awe of her beauty

• a married life of abundance and tradition

The following question applies to William Butler Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter," which appears on pp. 280–81. The poem catalogs the speaker's hopes for his infant daughter. He asks that she be

• well-educated and serious

• opinionated and recalcitrant

• ebullient and blithe

• exquisite and beguiling

• married and impecunious

The following question applies to William Butler Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter," which appears on pp. 280–81. When the speaker says, "For arrogance and hatred are the wares / Peddled in the thoroughfares" (ll. 75–76), the reader can infer that he sees "wares / Peddled in the thoroughfares" as all of the following EXCEPT

• distasteful

• tawdry

• accessible

• superior

The following question applies to Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son," which appears on pp. 282–83. The reader can infer that the speaker uses "crystal" (ll. 2 and 20) to mean

• clear and colorless

• smooth and luxurious

• solid and even

• garish and ostentatious

The following question applies to Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son," which appears on pp. 282–83. The speaker sees her son's current state as

• energetic but discouraged

• lethargic but buckling

• privileged but indolent

• aspiring but forlorn

• faltering but convincible

The following question applies to Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son," which appears on pp. 282–83. Which of the following is NOT true of the speaker in lines 3–7 ("It's had tacks . . . Bare")?

• She focuses on impediments.

• She provides concrete details

• She uses elevated diction.

• She emphasizes the tactile.