Hope Is a Thing with Feathers

The poet uses the words "gale" and "storm" as metaphors. What might these words represent?

• Times of bad weather
• Hard or painful times
• Pleasant Times
• Times of success and growth

The poet says that hope "sings the tune without the words." Why might the poet have written that the tune has no words?

• To emphasize that the words people use to express hope are different.
• to point out that it is very difficult for people to express whether they feel hopeful or not
• To suggest that people are usually unable to understand the feeling of hope
• To indicate that people who are always hopeful are also often forgetful

What is the theme of this poem?

• People need to work hard in order to maintain hope at all times.
• Hope is able to keep people warm even in the coldest, stormiest lands.
• Hope can survive through even the toughest times.
• Without hope, people would be much more sensible and realistic. 

Read these lines from the poem:
^{And sore must be the storm 
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.}
What does the word "abash" most nearly mean, based on these lines?

• To confuse
• To support
• To praise
• To silence

Read these lines from the poem 
And sore must be the storm that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land, and on the strangest sea; yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. 
What does "it" refer to in the last line?

• The little bird
• The storm
• The chillest land
• The strangest sea

What does the poet describe as the thing with feathers?

• life
• hope
• song
• soul

Which of the following states the overall metaphor of the poem?

• "I've heard it in the chillest land"
• "It asked a crumb--of Me."
• "And sore must be the storm--"
• "'Hope' is the thing with feathers--"
  

Which of the following quotations includes an example of alliteration?

• "And on the strangest Sea--"
  
• "It asked a crumb--of Me"
• "That could abash the little Bird"
• "Yet, never, in Extremity"

All of the following tell the reader WHERE hope is found EXCEPT:

• "I've heard it in the chillest land"
• "And on the strangest sea"
• "That kept so many warm"
  
• "That perches in the soul"

All of the following are things that Hope does EXCEPT:

• "that could abash the little bird"
  
• "sings the tunes without the words"
• "kept so many warm"
• "perches in the soul"