Basic understanding - The Road Not Taken

Who is the author of " The Road Not Taken"?

• Walt Whitman

• Ponyboy Curtis

• Robert Frost

• Langston Hughes

What is happening in this poem?

• The speaker is lost in the woods.

• The speaker is choosing a road to travel on.

• The speaker know where he is going

• The speaker is growing older and less able to travel.

What do the following lines of the poem mean?
" And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler "

• The speaker thinks both paths are equally good.

• The speaker wants to travel with someone, so they can each take a road.

• The speaker regrets not taking the other road at the start.

• The speaker is only one person and cannot go down two roads at the same time.

Which line from the poem shows that the speaker chose the path that looked overgrown because it was not used much?

• “Because it was grassy and wanted wear;” (line 8)

• “And looked down one as far as I could” (line 4)

• “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” (line 1)

• “Though as for that the passing there” (line 9)

What do the "roads" symbolize in the poem?

• Having a long or a short life

• Successes and failures in life

• Choices we have to make in life

• Events and people we meet in life

Determine what is happening in the first two stanzas

• The speaker is hiking through the grassland

• The speaker is traveling and comes to the edge of the woods

• The speaker thinks life is not fair

• The speaker comes to two roads and has to decide which one to take

Can you interpret what season it is in the poem?

• 
  Autumn

• Summer

• Spring

• Winter

Which definition best matches the way trodden is used in line 12 of the poem?

• Taken advantage of

• Walked on or over

• Part of a wheel that touches ground

• Part of a shoe that touches ground

The conflict in the poem occurs between .....

• Between the speaker and nature

• Between the two roads

• Between the speaker and another character

• Within the speaker himself

The speaker convinces himself that he made the right choice.

What line in the text shows this?

• " Then took the other, as just as fair " (line 6)

• " I shall be telling this with a sigh

  Somewhere ages and ages hence " (line 15)

  
  

• " Oh, I kept the first for another day " (line 13)

• " And that has made all the difference " (line 20)