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HUNGER AND COLD.

by James Russell Lowell.

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

Q01of 10

In the poem, 'Hunger and Cold' are personified as which of the following?

Q02of 10

What structural feature is consistent throughout every stanza of the poem?

Q03of 10

The image of 'Wolves' eyes through the windows peer' primarily conveys which idea?

Q04of 10

What is the speaker's attitude toward statesmen who 'temporize'?

Q05of 10

In the stanza beginning 'God has plans man must not spoil,' how does the speaker treat the idea that some people were born to starve?

Q06of 10

The phrase 'cobweb law' in the sixth stanza suggests which of the following about the legal system?

Q07of 10

What does the speaker mean when he says Hunger and Cold 'can visit sans court-dress'?

Q08of 10

Which theme is MOST central to the poem as a whole?

Q09of 10

The final stanza calls on 'Earth' to 'scatter ashes on thy head.' This allusion draws most directly from which tradition?

Q10of 10

In stanza five, 'at your whisper Treason stirs' means most precisely that:

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