Incident in a Rose Garden Quiz

What is the setting of the poem?

• a cemetery

• a garden

• a meadow

• a chamber

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PART A: In “Incident in a Rose Garden,” for whom has Death really come?

• The gardener

• the master

• the doctor

• the mistress

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PART B: Which of these lines indicate that he came for that person?

• "The gardener came running,An old man, out of breath.Fear had given him legs."

• "Sir, I encountered Death/Just now among our roses./ Thin as a scythe he stood there

• "Old men mistake my gestures./I only meant to ask him/To show me to his master. /I take it you are he?

• "Sir, I knew your father,/And we were friends at the end."

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The line "Old men mistake my gestures./I only meant to ask him/To show me to his master./ I take it you are he?" is an example of ​ (a)   ​ ​ ​ ​

• irony
• metaphor
• personification
• symbols

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The (a)   is a symbol of death and life being harvested.

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PART A: Which of these best represents the theme of the poem?

• Death comes to everyone. It's how you face it that matters.

• Death is what makes life meaningful.

• Death may come when least expected; live life with that thought in mind.

• If you're sleepwalking through life, you might as well be dead.

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PART B: Which TWO quotes best represents the theme?

• "The gardener came running,An old man, out of breath.Fear had given him legs."

• "Old men mistake my gestures./I only meant to ask him/To show me to his master. /I take it you are he?

• "Sir, I knew your father,/And we were friends at the end."

• Sir, I am quitting my job.

  I want to see my sons

  Once more before I die.

  I want to see California.

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Death's appearance isn't described as the grim reaper in the poem. Instead he is describe as ​ (a)  

• "a Spanish Waiter"
• "workman"
• "gardener"
• a connoisseur

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Which of these represents a symbol of death?

• The roses strewn on the ground

• Death himself

• The lanterns

• all of the above

Death appearing in the garden is an example of ​ (a)   .

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• irony

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