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The Patriot

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What style is the poem written in?

a)

Iambic Pentameter

b)

Dramatic monologue

c)

Blank verse

d)

None of the above

2.

Who wrote the poem?

a)

Robert Browning

b)

Roald Dahl

c)

Shel Silverstein

d)

William Wordsworth

3.

What is the literary device used in the phrase "The old walls rocked"?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

4.

What do the lines "Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels--- But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, " And afterward, what else?" " represent?

a)

The crowd jumping to catch the sun

b)

The comparison between the crowd now and a year hence

c)

The eagerness of the crowd to do as the patriot asks

d)

The joy the crowd feels in conversing with the patriot

5.

What is the theme of the poem?

a)

Fickleness of God

b)

Fickleness of public adulation

c)

Everything wrong with the world

d)

Discrimination

6.

What is the meaning of palsied?

a)

Diseased/ Paralyzed people

b)

People at the windows set

c)

Happy people

d)

Fickle people

7.

Why is the public congregating at Shambles' Gate?

a)

To watch the Patriot get rewarded for his year of hard work

b)

To watch the Patriot get hung for his year of misdeeds

c)

To watch the Gladiators fight

d)

To throw myrtle and roses in the Patriot's path

8.

What is the irony in the sentence "For they fling, whoever has a mind, Stones at me for my year's misdeeds."?

a)

The sentence says, whoever has a mind is flinging stones, but it is such a mindless activity in reality.

b)

Because they are all going to get a taste of their own medicine in the following stanzas

c)

Because The crowd themselves are getting hurt in the process

d)

None of the above

9.

The people will be paid for their deeds by whom?

a)

Children

b)

God

c)

The Patriot

d)

The crowd

10.

What do roses signify in the poem?

a)

Celebration

b)

Marriage

c)

Beauty

d)

Blood

11.

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

a)

ABCAB

b)

ABABA

c)

ABAB

d)

ABBAB

12.

What figure of speech is used in the line "It was roses, roses all the way"?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

13.

What is the juxtaposition between the sun in the first part of the poem and rain in the last?

a)

They represent sadness and joy respectively

b)

They represent glory/fame; pain, and, misery respectively

c)

They represent pain, and misery; glory, and fame respectively

d)

they represent happiness and sadness respectively

14.

What is the irony of the path the patriot uses at the beginning and end of the story?

a)

When he walks down it first, he is being greeted joyfully by the crowd. But later, he is walking the path to his demise.

b)

When he walks down the path first, he is happy, but later he is upset about doing so

c)

First when the patriot walks down the path, he is greeted by the crowd, but later he is going to massacre them

d)

both B and C