Q01of 10
What is the overall verse form Longfellow uses in 'Elizabeth'?
Q02of 10
When Elizabeth looks at the snow-covered landscape through the window, Longfellow compares it to 'the great white sheet that Peter saw.' What is the source of this allusion?
Q03of 10
Hannah complains that the snow will block the roads, specifically worrying about getting to 'Meeting on First-Day.' What does 'First-Day' signify?
Q04of 10
Elizabeth's faith-filled response to Hannah's worry about the snow—'Surely the Lord will provide; for unto the snow he sayeth, / Be thou on the earth'—draws primarily on which tone?
Q05of 10
Which literary technique best describes the line 'Spreading its arms to embrace with inexhaustible bounty'?
Q06of 10
John Estaugh explains he stopped to pick up a 'seemingly weary' traveler, recalling 'Queen Candace's eunuch' who invited Philip into his chariot. What is the function of this biblical reference in the poem?
Q07of 10
Throughout the poem Hannah the housemaid is characterized chiefly by which pair of traits?
Q08of 10
The central theme that Elizabeth's speech about hospitality most directly expresses is:
Q09of 10
When Longfellow describes sleep as 'death's counterfeit, nightly rehearsal / Of the great Silent Assembly,' he is drawing an analogy between sleep and which Quaker practice?
Q10of 10
At the close of the poem, Hannah is compared to 'the bird in a cuckoo-clock' that 'peeps out of its window, / Then disappears again.' What is the primary effect of this image?
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