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HIAWATHA'S WEDDING-FEAST.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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

Q01of 10

Which of the following best describes the overall structure of 'Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast'?

Q02of 10

What metrical pattern, borrowed from Finnish epic tradition, does Longfellow use throughout this poem?

Q03of 10

In Chibiabos's love song, the image 'As the springs to meet the sunshine' is used to illustrate which feeling?

Q04of 10

What is the primary purpose of the repeated refrain 'That the feast may be more joyous, / That the time may pass more gayly'?

Q05of 10

According to the poem, why do Hiawatha, Laughing Water, and Nokomis refrain from eating?

Q06of 10

How does the poem characterize Iagoo's reaction to the applause Chibiabos receives?

Q07of 10

What does the description of Pau-Puk-Keewis's face—'Barred with streaks of red and yellow, / Streaks of blue and bright vermilion'—primarily convey?

Q08of 10

Which literary technique is most prominently at work when Pau-Puk-Keewis's dance accelerates until 'the leaves went whirling with him'?

Q09of 10

The name 'Iagoo' became, as the poem states, 'a by-word / And a jest among the people,' used to mock boastful hunters or warriors. This detail primarily serves to show which aspect of Iagoo's character?

Q10of 10

The feast foods described—sturgeon, pemican, buffalo marrow, haunch of deer, and 'Yellow cakes of the Mondamin'—function primarily as what within the poem?

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