Reading Comprehension Implied Main Ideas of Poetry

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Reading ComprehensionImplied Main Ideas of Poetry

• CIM R8

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Read the passage and then answer the questions
from the next 6 slides on your paper.

• I shall die, but that is all I shall do for
  Death.
• I hear him leading his horse out of the stall I
  hear the clatter on the barn-floor.
• He is in haste he has business in Cuba, business
  in the Balkans, many calls to make this morning.
• But I will not hold the bridle while he cinches
  the grith.
• And he may nount by himself I will not give him
  a leg up
• Am I a spy in the land of the living, that I
  should deliver men to Death?
• Brother, the password and the plans of our city
  are safe with me never through me
• Shall you be overcome.
• --Conscientious Objector by Edna St. Vincent
  Millay

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1. To what is this poet objecting?

• A. Death
• B. Being an accomplice to Death
• C. Cuba and the Balkans
• D. The land of the living

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2. What does the poet mean when she says that
Death has business in Cuba and the Balkans?

• A. Coffins are made in these regions.
• B. Profit can be made in these regions.
• C. There is plague in these regions.
• D. There is war in these regions.

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3. What does the poet mean by the phrase a spy
in the land of the living?

• A. An angel
• B. A person who contributes to the death of
  others
• C. A person who describes the afterlife to other
  people
• D. A ghost

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4. What does the author mean when she says, I
shall die, but that is all that I shall do for
Death?

• A. She will not kill others.
• B. She will accept her own death.
• C. She will not contribute to the deaths of
  others.
• D. All of the above.

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5. What is the main idea of this passage?

• A. I will not be anyones servant, no matter how
  powerful he or she is.
• B. I will not contribute to the deaths of
  others.
• C. I will not help others do evil.
• D. Death is to be avoided at all costs.

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6. What is the tone of this poem?

• A. Detached
• B. Determined
• C. Timid
• D. Sorrowful

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