Question 1 0 out of 1.6 points The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “Angel who had a bright key /And … open'd the coffins and set them all free” (line 13-14) represents __________.
Question 2 1.6 out of 1.6 points The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho' the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” The boy’s statement testifies to his __________.
Question 3 1.6 out of 1.6 points In lines 7-8, the narrator is trying to ________ Tom when he tells him, “Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head's bare, / You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.”
Question 4 1.6 out of 1.6 points In line 3, the boy is calling out his trade; instead of “sweep,” he cries “weep weep weep weep.” This is the poet’s way of telling the reader that __________.
Question 5 1.6 out of 1.6 points In line 3, the boy is calling out his trade; instead of “sweep,” he cries “weep weep weep weep.” This is the poet’s way of telling the reader that __________.
Question 6 1.6 out of 1.6 points A paradoxical statement is a figure of speech in which an apparently self-contradictory statement is nevertheless found to be true.
