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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of these inferences best describes what the first four lines of the last stanza are describing?
The speaker is preparing a memorial service for someone
The speaker’s mother has come to help during a time of grief.
The speaker has suffered loss or sorrow and has had to return to her daily life.
The speaker does not want to mail letters and purchase bread.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What does the word cloth most likely represent in the following passage?
The quilt that covers a bed
The burial cloth someone will need soon
The number of people who have felt sorrow
The cover that hides people’s true feelings
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of these answers states the poet’s main message about kindness?
Loss and sorrow make you appreciate kindness.
Everyone, especially travelers, should practice kindness.
Kindness is all around, if you look carefully.
Kindness doesn’t last long when people are under stress.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of these lines from the poem best support the correct answer to Question 3?
“Before you know what kindness really is / you must lose things,”
“Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, / only kindness that ties your shoes”
“You must see how this could be you, / how he too was someone”
“and then goes with you everywhere / like a shadow or a friend.”
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