WorksheetsA Dream Deferred
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
The poet reveals the speaker's feelings mainly by?
a)
Using personification to show the characteristics of a dream
b)
Using similes to describe what happens to dreams
c)
Using metaphors to describe what happens to dreams
d)
None of the above
2.
The repetition of the word "like" emphasizes the speakers desire to?
a)
Find out what happens to dreams
b)
See how dreams disapper
c)
Understand what a dream is
d)
Both A and B
3.
Which line best communicates the speaker's feeling of what happens to a dream deferred
a)
does it dry up
b)
or fester like a sore
c)
May be it just sag
d)
all of the above
4.
What is the best summary of A Dream Deferred
a)
What happens to a dream deferred
b)
what dreams are
c)
Why dream deferred
d)
none above
5.
The poet helps the reader understand how it felt to.....
a)
Forget about a dream
b)
be a dried up raisin
c)
run away from a dream
d)
have a dream
6.
Based on the first stanza, the reader can conclude that the speaker....
a)
hates having dream
b)
remembers all his dreams
c)
is curious of what happens to dreams
d)
all of the above
7.
dividing the poem into 3 stanzas allows the poet to-
a)
establish the message of the poem clearly
b)
make stanzas so it's considered a poem
c)
look cool
d)
all of the above
8.
The imagery in lines 1 through 8 helps the reader understand-
a)
what the reader thinks happens to a dream deferred
b)
what a dream looks like
c)
what dreams do
d)
all of the above
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