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HAUNTED HOUSES.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Ten questions on craft, meaning, and form. Untimed. Answer every question to submit.

Q01of 10

What does Longfellow claim about ALL houses where people have lived and died?

Q02of 10

Which word best describes the tone Longfellow uses when referring to the ghosts in the poem?

Q03of 10

In the third stanza, the ghosts gathered at the table are compared to which of the following?

Q04of 10

What does the legal term 'mortmain' in the fifth stanza most clearly suggest about former owners?

Q05of 10

What structural feature best characterizes the overall form of 'Haunted Houses'?

Q06of 10

When the speaker says 'The stranger at my fireside cannot see / The forms I see,' what distinction is being drawn?

Q07of 10

Which of the following best identifies the central metaphor of the poem's final two stanzas?

Q08of 10

In stanzas seven and eight, what force does Longfellow compare to an 'undiscovered planet in our sky'?

Q09of 10

Which literary technique does Longfellow primarily use in the line 'The spirit-world around this world of sense / Floats like an atmosphere'?

Q10of 10

What is the primary theme of 'Haunted Houses' as developed across the entire poem?

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