71. What is embroidered on the sheet used to cover the body in “The Emperor of Ice Cream”?
A. birds
B. hearts
C. flowers
D. leaves
✅ The correct answer is option A.
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72. The waists on the stone statues of soldiers are compared to what in “For the Union Dead?”
A. mosquitos
B. swans
C. herons
D. wasps
✅ The correct answer is option D.
73. Which is NOT an adjective you could apply to the cigar man in “The Emperor of Ice Cream”, based on the poem’s description of him?
A. masculine
B. capable
C. strong
D. arrogant
✅ The correct answer is option D.
74. What animal does the final stanza compare cars to in “For the Union Dead?”
A. zebras
B. fish
C. snakes
D. cats
✅ The correct answer is option B.
75. Who makes the ice cream in “The Emperor of Ice Cream”?
A. the mother
B. the speaker
C. the roller of big cigars
D. the newspaper boys
✅ The correct answer is option C.
76. Colonel Shaw served in which war in “For the Union Dead?”
A. world war i
B. world war ii
C. the vietnam war
D. the civil war
✅ The correct answer is option D.
77. What is the metaphorical meaning of the title Home Burial?
A. the end of the marriage
B. end of life
C. beginning of a new life
D. a new chapter in their lives
✅ The correct answer is option A.
78. An advertisement for what insensitively uses an image of Hiroshima in “For the Union Dead?”
A. a movie
B. a brand of safes
C. a brand of watch
D. a skin care product
✅ The correct answer is option B.
79. What does the wife see through the window at the beginning of “Home Burial”?
A. horsemen approaching
B. the coroner’s wagon
C. her child’s grave
D. her husband returning
✅ The correct answer is option C.
80. In I, Too, the speaker says that tomorrow, no one will dare to
A. insult him
B. throw him out
C. hurt him
D. tell him to eat in the kitchen
✅ The correct answer is option D.