Q01of 10
What game are the children playing on the city street at night?
Q02of 10
The poem is structured as four stanzas of four lines each with an ABAB rhyme scheme. What effect does this regular form create?
Q03of 10
In stanza two, the phrase 'since Abel's birth' is best understood as a reference to what?
Q04of 10
What is the primary theme of 'Hi-Spy'?
Q05of 10
The speaker mentions 'many a Syrian shepherd's son' alongside children in 'stately Babylon.' What technique does this use of geography illustrate?
Q06of 10
In the final stanza, the speaker says 'Come, brother! from your winding-sheet.' The phrase 'winding-sheet' most nearly means:
Q07of 10
What shift in tone occurs between the third and fourth stanzas?
Q08of 10
Which of the following best describes the speaker's relationship to the children playing in the street?
Q09of 10
The opening lines note that the thoroughfare 'renounce[s] its care' at night. What poetic device is used here?
Q10of 10
The poem was published in 1886. What does the closing couplet — 'let us two be boys again' — most reveal about the speaker's emotional state?
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