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The road not taken

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the setting of this poem?
a)
a quiet street on the edge of a town
b)
a forest in the middle of winter
c)
a wood with two roads in it
2.
The speaker of the poem wishes that he or she did not have to make a choice between the roads.
What lines from the poem support this statement?
a)
And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler, long I stood
b)
Though as for that, the passing there/Had worn them really about the same
c)
And both that morning equally lay/In leaves no step had trodden black
3.
Based on the information in the poem, why might the second road have "wanted wear" and been "grassy?"
a)
because the second road was close to a stream that ran through the woods
b)
because the second road got a lot of sunlight
c)
because few people had taken the second road
4.

The word "diverged" means went in different directions." What is a line in the poem that provides a clue to the meaning of "diverged"?

a)

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

b)

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

c)

Had worn them really about the same

5.
Who is the character in the poem?
a)
The traveler
b)
The writer
c)
The author
6.
Who wrote the poem The Road Not Taken?
a)
Pearl Buck
b)
Robert Frost
c)
Robert First
7.
Based on the poem, the reader can conclude that the speaker is
a)
indecisive.
b)
being creative.
c)
making choices
d)
polite.
8.

Frost uses the image of two diverging roads to symbolize.....

a)

sorrow and regret

b)

life's choice

c)

the love of nature

d)

the spirit of independence

9.

In the line, "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" "the first" refers to

a)

the narrators choice

b)

the road

c)

fate

d)

death

10.

According to the narrator, the two roads looked?

a)

About the same

b)

Very different

c)

Muddy and unpleasant

11.

Copy the lines from the poem that show that the traveler understood he wouldn't be able to go back and take the first road in the future.

4 lines
12.

"I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence"

What does the word "this" refer to?

4 lines
13.

"I shall be telling this with a sigh",

What could the word sigh symbolize?

a)

The traveler is sick

b)

The traveler is in love

c)

The traveler is happy with his choice

d)

The traveler is lost