The Wood-Pile by Robert Frost

Which of the following is a common theme in Frost's poetry?

• Pastoral Life

• Economics

• Life at Sea

• Circuses

Frost's poetry is primarily concerned with which area of the United States?

• The Deep South

• Salinas Valley

• New England

• Arizona

What is the question the narrator asks his neighbor in the poem? [use the exact words from poem]

• Are walls really needed?

• Why do they make good neighbours?

• Why do we need walls?

• Are walls really important?

What does the neighbor reply when Frost asks why they need a wall?

• "I will not go behind my father's saying."

• "Walls make for perfect neighbours."

• "Good fences make good neighbours."

• "Walls are needed to keep the peace."

What might be a main theme of this poem?

• the fear of staying too long on someone else's land

• the pull of sleeping in nature against the pull of sleeping at home

• the pull of being alone in nature against the pull of responsibility

• the ability of nature to make a person feel tired and sleepy

Frost describes his neighbor as...

• a traditional kind of man

• an ignorant man

• a wise old man

• old-stone savage armed

Why does Robert Frost insist that they do not need a wall?

• The hunters destroy walls.

• Robert Frost has a spell to make the stones balance.

• "Good fences make good neighbors."

• His apple trees will never cross or eat the neighbor's pines.

The metaphors in line 24--"He is all pine and I am apple orchard"--serve primarily to

• reinforce the similarity of the speaker and his neighbor

• reveal the crops grown by the speaker and his neighbor

• emphasize the contrast between the speaker and his neighbor

• provide a hint of the neighbor's attitude toward the speaker

When the neighbor says "Good Fences makes Good neighbors" he means that....

• people should forgive their neighbors for all bad doings

• strong fences are better than stone walls for keeping neighbors out of one's property

• friendly relations depend on a respect for privacy

• cows will cause damage on neighbors farms ,if there are no good fences

The two neighbors identified in the poem mainly meet ____________.

• every week to talk about repairing the fence

• during spring in order to fix the wall

• during winter to discuss expanding their property

• when the apple harvest is ready to take to market