There is more then one answer for the multiple choice question:
Read the poem which follows and select the emotions and imagery of a parent’s perspective on a child’s death that also appear in The Sweet Hereafter. “Luna Rayne” by Susan Michalski
I hold this tiny thought in my fist if my moon girl could she’d dance through the storm puddles left behind in my next dream and sing like rain on canvas for one brilliant moment as I recall
3 points
QUESTION 2
Read the poem which follows and select the emotions and imagery of an outsider’s perspective of death that also appear in The Sweet Hereafter. “There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House” by Emily Dickinson
There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House, As lately as Today — I know it, by the numb look Such Houses have — always —
The Neighbors rustle in and out — The Doctor — drives away — A Window opens like a Pod — Abrupt — mechanically —
Somebody flings a Mattress out — The Children hurry by — They wonder if it died — on that — I used to — when a Boy —
The Minister — goes stiffly in — As if the House were His — And He owned all the Mourners — now — And little Boys — besides —
And then the Milliner — and the Man Of the Appalling Trade — To take the measure of the House — There’ll be that Dark Parade —
Of Tassels — and of Coaches — soon — It’s easy as a Sign — The Intuition of the News — In just a Country Town —
3 points
QUESTION 3
Read the poem which follows and select the emotions and imagery of an outsider’s perspective of death that also appear in The Sweet Hereafter. “Every Death Is Magic from the Enemy to Be Avenged” by Brooks Haxton
When fever burned the last light out of my daughter’s eyes, I swore to find and kill the ones to blame. Men must mount the long boat in the dark with spears. At dawn, where the flowering spicebush hid my scent, I crouched. A young wife, newborn slung across her chest, came first for spring water. She stooped. My god, for vengeance, spoke her secret name inside my ear. Her god stepped back with no scream, his right hand at his mouth, the knuckles clenched between the pointed teeth.
3 points
QUESTION 4
Read the poem which follows and select the symbols and imagery of death that also appear in The Sweet Hereafter. “Absence” by Amy Lowell
My cup is empty to-night, Cold and dry are its sides, Chilled by the wind from the open window. Empty and void, it sparkles white in the moonlight. The room is filled with the strange scent Of wisteria blossoms. They sway in the moon’s radiance And tap against the wall. But the cup of my heart is still, And cold, and empty. When you come, it brims Red and trembling with blood, Heart’s blood for your drinking; To fill your mouth with love And the bitter-sweet taste of a soul.
3 points
QUESTION 5
In The Sweet Hereafter and the following poem, what does the newborn symbolize? “Every Death Is Magic from the Enemy to Be Avenged” by Brooks HaxtonWhen fever burned the last light out of my daughter’s eyes, I swore to find and kill the ones to blame. Men must mount the long boat in the dark with spears. At dawn, where the flowering spicebush hid my scent, I crouched. A young wife, newborn slung across her chest, came first for spring water. She stooped. My god, for vengeance, spoke her secret name inside my ear. Her god stepped back with no scream, his right hand at his mouth, the knuckles clenched between the pointed teeth.
3 points
QUESTION 6
In section four, which of the following is the extended metaphor for Nichole’s mental state.
3 points
QUESTION 7
In The Sweet Hereafter , why is the accident scene described only in similes – “bearing down on me like a wall of water” – and surreal images – “the sky tipped and veered away and the ground lurched brutally forward?”
3 points
QUESTION 8
In section 5 of The Sweet Hereafter , what is the central symbol for Dolores Driscoll and her outcome?
3 points
QUESTION 9
Match each kind of figurative language from a poem with the same kind of figurative language from the novel The Sweet Hereafter .
Answer
A.
“A piercing Comfort it affords/In passing Calvary – / To note the fashions – of the Cross – “
B.
“At the word, the saw,/As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,/Leaped out at the boy’s hand”
C.
“A Window opens like a Pod”
6 points
QUESTION 10
In three or four paragraphs, compare and contrast the irony of Nichole’s reasons for lying to the court about the accident to another well-known character who lies that you have encountered in literature. Which of these characters had a better reason to lie: your character or Nichole? Which of these characters got the outcome they hoped for when they told the lie? What does the irony in each story say about the nature of truth and lies? (Note: some famous literary liars you might consider writing about are: Elizabeth Proctor or Abigail Williams from The Crucible ; Odysseus from The Odyssey ; Romeo from Romeo and Juliet ; Tom or Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby ; Arthur Dimmesdale from the Scarlet Letter ; the narrator or Marla Singer from Fight Club ; Cyrano or Christian from Cyrano de Bergerac ; Sheherazhad from Arabian Nights ; Huck Finn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ; Pip from Great Expectations , or a liar of your choice from a book or play you have read/seen)
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