Q01of 10
What is the primary reason the child is referred to as 'Marthy's younkit' throughout the poem?
Q02of 10
Which of the following best describes the structural role of the opening and closing stanzas of the poem?
Q03of 10
What does the brook's behavior—singing 'lonesomelike' and loitering—primarily represent throughout the poem?
Q04of 10
How old was Marthy's younkit when he died?
Q05of 10
The speaker says of the child's death, 'It's right the old should die, but that a harmless little child / Should miss the joy uv life an' love.' What tone does this express?
Q06of 10
Which literary technique is most prominently used in the line 'The pines an' hemlocks tosst their boughs (like they wuz arms)'?
Q07of 10
What effect does the miners' singing of 'Jesus, Lover uv my Soul' and the subsequent week without swearing suggest about the funeral?
Q08of 10
Who dug the child's grave, and what was significant about its location?
Q09of 10
In the final stanza, the speaker imagines that 'the wild-flowers uv the summer-time bend down their heads to hear / The footfall uv a little friend.' What is the most significant effect of this image?
Q10of 10
The poem's diction—words like 'younkit,' 'wuz,' 'uv,' and 'peert'—serves which primary purpose?
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