WorksheetsTableau & Teenagers Poetry
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which of the following selections best explains how the two boys respond to their disapproving neighbors?
They pay no attention to them
They stop walking because it upsets them.
They stare back at the neighbors.
They cross into their neighbors’ front yards.
The final quatrain of the poem (lines 9-12) suggests mainly that _______.
"Oblivious to look and word
They pass, and see no wonder
That lightning brilliant as a sword
Should blaze the path of thunder."
the boys don’t plan to walk past these unkind neighbors ever again
the boys are carrying swords with them as they walk
the boys don’t realize the significance of what they are doing
the neighborhood where the boys walk is having severe thunderstorms
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the poem?
The boys walking together cause people to talk quietly and in secret.
The boys are ashamed of their relationship with each other.
The two boys did not know each other before going on their walk together.
The walk only lasts for a couple minutes.
Which couplet from the text most strongly supports your answer to the previous question?
“Locked arm in arm they cross the way / The black boy and the white,”
“The golden splendor of the day / The sable pride of night.”
“They pass, and see no wonder / That lightning brilliant as a sword”
“From lowered blinds the dark folk stare / And here the fair folk talk,”
What does the word "fair" mean?
tall
light in color
frustrated
a sand bucket
What does the word "splendor" mean?
horrible
beauty
round
slouch
What does "indignant" mean?
funny
crazy
happy about a celebration
upset about something that's not fair
What does "oblivious" mean?
angry
estatic
unaware
broke
What does "unison" mean?
all together
undone
tragic
sad
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the stanza?
"I pace the hall, hear whispers,
a code I knew but can’t remember,
mouthed by mouths I taught to speak."
The speaker of the poem used to work as an English teacher.
The speaker’s children are whispering so that their parents can’t hear them.
The speaker of the poem is beginning to lose her memory.
The speaker’s teenage children are learning another language at school.
The word code in the following passage most closely refers to ______ .
"I pace the hall, hear whispers,
a code I knew but can’t remember,
mouthed by mouths I taught to speak."
a password or PIN number
a way of communicating
a set of rules or ethics
instructions for a computer or program
Lines 9-14 of the poem mainly suggest that _______ .
"Years later the door opens. I see faces I once held, open as sunflowers in my hands. I see familiar skin now stretched on long bodies that move past me glowing almost like pearls."
the speaker’s children are well over six feet tall
the speaker doesn’t even recognize the children now that they are grown
the speaker is amazed at how the children have grown into adults
the children look nothing like they did when they were younger
Which passage from the poem most strongly supports the correct answer to the previous question?
“Years later the door opens”
“I see faces I once held, / open as sunflowers in my hands”
“I see / familiar skin now stretched on long bodies”
“that move past me glowing almost like pearls”
