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After Apple Picking

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class

Date

Which quote from the poem explains why the speaker left the ladder and bucket by the tree?

"And there's a barrel that I didn't fill."

"But I was well / Upon my way to sleep before it fell."

"I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend."

"I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired."

Which line from the poem suggests the speaker wants to rest from apple picking?

"And there's a barrel I didn't fill."

"And I could tell / What form my dreaming was about to take."

"I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend."

"I am overtired / of the great harvest"

Based on line 7, what does the word essence tell the reader?

There are things that the speaker wanted to see through the windows.

The odor of the picked apples is pleasant to the speaker.

There are classic signs of winter all around the speaker.

The job of picking apples seems to be never-ending.

In line 9, what is meant by the phrase, "I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight."

The speaker's sleepy state is bringing back visions from earlier in the day.

The speaker's eyes were irritated when he looked out the window.

The speaker's eyes were irritated after being outside in the snow.

The speaker did not like seeing the apples, buckets, and barrels.

What is meant by lines 21 and 22?

The speaker's feet are balanced on the rungs of the ladder.

In his dream, the speaker still feels the rungs of the ladder.

The speaker is holding onto the ladder with both of his hands.

On the ladder, the speaker is trying to climb on the shaky rungs.

The speaker makes an allusion to heaven through which object?

great harvest

two-pointed ladder

apple barrel

the woodchuck

In poetry, sleep is often an allusion to

youth

old age

death

rest

the word "hoary" in line 12 means

frosty

hairy

unkept

dusty

On the theme creativity and dissatisfaction, which line embodies the the term "work is never done"

But I am done with apple-picking now.

But I was well Upon my way to sleep before it fell, And I could tell What form my dreaming was about to take.

I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.

The woodchuck could say whether it's like his Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, Or just some human sleep.

10.

When comparing the poem to the cycle of life and death, which season represents death?

Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter

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After Apple Picking

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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