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WorksheetsSummer Sun and Other Poems Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What does the poet mean when he says the sun goes "without repose"?
The sun is very tired.
The sun moves very slowly.
The sun never stops moving or resting.
The sun looks like a rose.
What is the sun called in the last stanza of the poem?
The World's Great Star
The gardener of the world
The Lord of Light
The Painter of Roses
How does the sun get into the house even when the blinds are pulled shut?
It breaks the window.
It enters through the chimney.
It finds a large hole in the roof.
It finds a "chink or two" (small crack) to slip through.
What does the poet call the sun's rays?
Bright spears
Golden fingers
Silver light
Warm ropes
What kind of feeling does the sun bring to the "dusty attic"?
Fear
Sadness
Happiness or joy
Heat
Which place does the sun shine into when the poet describes it as "spider-clad"?
The bedroom
The dusty attic
The shady parlour
The garden path
The sun showers its light more thickly than what natural phenomenon?
Fog
Snow
Rain
Dew
What was Tajima's original job or position?
A rich merchant
A Ronin (master less samurai)
A wandering priest
A soldier
How much silver was the priest carrying?
One hundred ounces of gold
Two hundred ounces of silver
Three hundred silver coins
Two large bags of jewels
What was the silver supposed to be used for?
Buying land for the priest
Starting a new business for Tajima
Erecting a molten image of Buddha
Buying a new home
What was Tajima's new name after he stole the money and became a merchant?
Shume
Kuana
Tokubei
Ronin
What caused Tokubei's strange frenzy and sickness three years later?
He spent all the money too quickly.
He was captured by the police.
The ghost of the priest tormented him.
He missed his old life as a soldier.
Tajima threw the priest into the sea near which location?
Edo
Osaka
Kuana
Kyoto
What is the main message of the famous lines: "For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever"?
Men are better than the brook.
All living things die quickly.
Nature (the brook) lasts forever, but human life is short.
The brook has a longer life than the river.
The words "chatter" and "babble" are used to describe the brook's...
Color.
Sound.
Shape.
Depth.
Which of these is a place the brook does NOT flow past?
Thirty hills
Factories
Twenty thorpes (villages)
Half a hundred bridges
What does the brook carry on its surface as it travels?
Empty cans and trash
Large boats
A blossom sailing and a foamy flake
Fish nets
Where is the brook's final destination mentioned in the poem?
The mountains
The sea
The brimming river
Philip's farm
The brook says it flows down by how many villages (thorpes)?
Ten
Twenty
Thirty
Fifty
Who wrote Tajima
Jonah Jake
Mary Mitford
Alfred Lord Tennyson
John Keats
