Q01of 10
What is the primary setting of the poem?
Q02of 10
Which structural technique does Longfellow use to show the friar's actions between spoken passages?
Q03of 10
The friar personifies the wine casks as 'this brotherhood, / Dwelling forever underground.' What literary device is this?
Q04of 10
To what legendary figure does Longfellow compare the oldest cask, whose cobweb beard trails along the floor?
Q05of 10
What tone dominates the opening stanzas when the friar describes his descent into the cellar?
Q06of 10
According to the friar, what happens to old wine at Easter-tide that he compares to the inner life of friars?
Q07of 10
The friar justifies the high cost of Bacharach wine with which specific claim?
Q08of 10
Which three rivers are associated with the poem's three best kinds of wine?
Q09of 10
How does the friar describe the inferior wine he draws at the poem's close, and for whom is it intended?
Q10of 10
The friar's repeated use of religious language—prayers, blessings, benedictions—to describe wine-tasting is best understood as an example of which technique?
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