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TORQUEMADA.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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

Q01of 10

Which historical figures are named as rulers of Spain in the poem's opening lines?

Q02of 10

The poem is structured so that each major section advances the Hidalgo's downfall. What does the framing device in the opening stanza — 'perhaps 't were best / If it, too, were forgotten' — primarily accomplish?

Q03of 10

The image of the Hidalgo watching 'with velvet slippers, noiseless on the floors' primarily conveys which quality of his character?

Q04of 10

When the Hidalgo asks Torquemada's permission 'with my own hand to light the funeral fire,' what does this request reveal about his psychological state?

Q05of 10

The biblical allusion to Abraham and his son, repeated twice by Torquemada, serves chiefly to:

Q06of 10

What is the tone of the lines 'O pitiless skies! why did your clouds retain / For peasants' fields their floods of hoarded rain?'

Q07of 10

The four statues of Hebrew Prophets surrounding the scaffold are described as gazing 'with calm indifference in their eyes.' This image primarily suggests:

Q08of 10

Throughout the poem, a demonic voice repeats a phrase urging the Hidalgo on. What is the effect of placing this refrain in a demonic voice rather than the Hidalgo's own thoughts?

Q09of 10

The memory of the Hidalgo's dead wife is compared to 'moonlight in a solitary street, / Where the same rays... are thrown / Lovely but powerless upon walls of stone.' This simile emphasizes that his memory of her is:

Q10of 10

What ultimately happens to the Hidalgo at the poem's conclusion?

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