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WorksheetsThe Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
All of the following describe the setting EXCEPT...?
"Hamelin town's in Brunswick"
"A pleasanter spot you never spied"
"Almost five hundred years ago"
"To see townsfolk suffer so"
What is the conflict they're facing at the beginning of the tale?
The cats and dogs are fighting.
Rats have overrun the town.
Their children are starving.
The nearby river is going to flood the town.
Which of the following is a synonym for rats?
vats
dolt
rouse
vermin
What is the rhyme scheme (pattern) for this section of the poem?
ABAB
AABB
ABCB
ABCD
Which line from the poem includes a word with a prefix that means "not"?
"Into the street the Piper stept, smiling first a little smile"
"And I chiefly use my charm on creatures that do people harm"
"And his fingers, they noticed, were ever straying as if impatient to be playing"
"To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled, and green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled"
The Pied Piper is known for using his charms to do what?
Entertain royalty with his music
Outwit evil ogres.
Rid places of creatures that do people harm.
Hypnotize politicians into doing what he says.
What does the description of the Pied Piper reveal about this character?
His piercing eyes and smiling face imply that the Pied Piper is secretly evil.
His strange and prominent instrument reveals that the Pied Piper uses music to manipulate people.
His mismatched style of dress suggests that the Pied Piper is somewhat unbalanced and corrupt.
His unusual appearance suggests that the Pied Piper is strange and mischievous, and unlike other people.
The Pied Piper asks, "Will you give me a thousand guilders?" We can infer that "guilders" refers to what?
musical instruments
magic beans
money
cattle
"As if he knew what magic slept in his quiet pipe" is an example of which type of figurative language?
onomatopoeia
simile
alliteration
personification
"And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, you heard as if an army muttered" appeals to which of the five senses?
sight
sound
taste
touch
What type of sound device is used here?
onomatopoeia
repetition
simile
hyperbole
"And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling" --> "grumbling" and "rumbling are examples of . . . ?
alliteration
onomatopoeia
personification
simile
What happened to the town's rats?
They drowned in the river.
They exploded.
They disappeared into the sewers.
They bowed down to the council, vowing to behave themselves.
Using context clues, what does the word "perished" mean?
died
survived
swam
dived
When the Piper came to collect his reward, what happened?
The Council exiles him from the town.
The townspeople shower him with riches.
They make him king.
The Mayor refused to pay him the full amount.
What happens as a result of the Mayor's refusal to pay the Piper?
The Piper releases the rats back into the town.
The Piper plays his pipe and lures all the children of the town away.
The townspeople throw the Mayor in jail.
The clouds begin to rain cats and dogs.
"Matter of money" and "such sweet soft notes" are examples of which type of sound device?
rhyme
repetition
onomatopoeia
alliteration
"And like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering, out came the children running" is an example of . . .?
simile
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
personification
Where did the children of Hamelin go?
They got lost in the forest, never to be seen from again.
They drowned in the river like the rats.
They cheerfully marched off a cliff.
They disappeared into a portal in the mountainside.
What is the theme of the poem?
Always keep your promises and pay your debts.
Never trust a strange-looking outsider.
Music has a strange power over people.
Be true to yourself.
