Which of the following inferences about the speaker is best supported by the poem’s first stanza (lines 1-4)?
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
Answer choices for the above question
A. The speaker assumes that the listener is on her side.
B. The speaker wants to change her name to something unfamiliar.
C. The speaker fears the judgment of others.
D. The speaker is tired of being famous.
The second stanza (lines 5-8) adds to the development of the poem mainly by .
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
Answer choices for the above question
A. sharing personal details from the speaker’s own life
B. suggesting that the poem takes place in June
C. making it clear that the speaker of the poem is a frog
D. further explaining why the speaker wouldn’t want to be “Somebody”
Which of the following selections most closely describes the speaker’s opinion of audiences?
Answer choices for the above question
A. She believes that it is necessary for a poet to have a wide audience.
B. She thinks that audiences aren’t very intelligent.
C. She only wants an audience that is respectful and kind.
D. She believes that having a wide audience is a sign of importance.
Which line from the poem best supports the correct answer to Question 3?
Answer choices for the above question
A. “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
B. “Are you – Nobody – too?”
C. “How dreary – to be – Somebody!”
D. “To an admiring Bog!”
3 answers
B. She thinks that audiences aren’t very intelligent.
C. She only wants an audience that is respectful and kind.
D. She believes that having a wide audience is a sign of importance.
The wind would spin the blades of the windmill, rotate the magnets in a dynamo, and create electricity. Attach a wire to the dynamo and you could power anything, especially a bulb. All I needed was a windmill, and then I could have lights. No more kerosene lamps that burned our eyes and sent us gasping for breath. With a windmill, I could stay awake at night reading instead of going to bed at seven with the rest of Malawi.
Which fact about Malawi helps the reader understand what the excerpt is mostly about?
Malawi lacked sufficient resources to generate energy.
Malawi was a small, rural country on the African continent.
Malawi had citizens who liked to go to sleep early in the evening.
Malawi provided kerosene lamps to its population for reading.
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