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The Road Not Taken

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 2mins

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Class
Date
1.

The poet stood at the intersection of?

a)

A wood painted yellow

b)

An Autumn forest

c)

Trees with infected flowers

d)

Woods which is yellow in colour

2.

The poet regrets that

a)

He could not travel on both the roads simultaneously

b)

He has become old

c)

The roads are covered with thick undergrowth

d)

The paths are not clearly visible

3.

The poet finally chooses the road

a)

Which has been travelled by many

b)

Which looks more attractive

c)

Which very few trodden on

d)

Which has less grass

4.

Quote a line from the poem to show that it was not easy for the poet to decide which road to follow

a)

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"

b)

"And sorry I could not travel both"

c)

"...long I stood"

d)

"And looked down as far as I could"

5.

Pick out the lines which say that the two roads looked similar that morning

a)


"Oh, I kept the first for another day"

b)

"Yet knowing how way leads on to way"

c)

"I doubted I should ever come back"

d)

"Both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden back"

6.

"way leads on to way" means

a)

There are many roads ahead

b)

It is an uphill road

c)

One road joins another road ahead

d)

None of these

7.

What does 'that' refer to in the last line of the poem? It means that he chose ...

a)

It means that he chose good over evil

b)

It refers to his decision to take the other road

c)

It means he took the narrow road

d)

None of these

8.

The Road in the poem stands for

a)

a long tedious journey

b)

challenges

c)

choices in life

d)

forward movement

9.

In the first stanza, the poet is talking of the present time when he has to choose one of the two roads. What time is he thinking of in the last stanza?

a)

The future

b)

The past

c)

The present

d)

None of these

10.

The poet of the poem 'The Road Not Taken' is...

a)

Robert Cary

b)

Daniel Asimov

c)

Rob Anderson

d)

Robert Frost