Patty's Charcoal Drive-In
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- Q1The use of the present tense throughout the poem helps reinforce the speaker'sambivalence regarding her work as a waitressfailure to value other dimensions of life beyond pleasure seekingsurprise at the rich variety within her routine at the drive-insense of timelessness during the summer at the drive-in60s
- Q2The speaker experiences a tension primarily betweenthe superficiality of the drive-in customers and her own sensitivity to the environmenther desire to please others and her attempt to define her own identitythe artificiality of the drive-in and the reality of the natural worldher satisfaction with her job at the drive-in and her undefined future life60s
- Q3The speaker considers her work at the drive-in to beincreasingly disagreeableeducational and enlighteningunexpectedly demandingpredictable and uncomplicated60s
- Q4Lines 30-33 seem to suggest therapid changes in the moods of adolescentspossibility of an ominous changeneed to make serious long-term planspower of nature to disrupt idyllic scenes60s
- Q5The interjection in line 34 serves primarily toforeshadow the final line of the poemalter the effect of the preceding imagecomment ironically on the speaker's prospects for the futureemphasize the breadth of the speaker's reading experience60s
- Q6In line 36, the description of the moon helps to do which of the following?Emphasize the speaker's sense of forebodingLink the changeable nature of the moon to that of the speakerShow how the speaker's current situation influences her perception of her environmentConvey a sense of the speaker's limitations60s
- Q7Which of the following lines best conveys the speaker's sense of time while at the drive-in?"And I wait on them, hoping for tips" (line 19)"an each night repeats itself" (line 23)"I'm sixteen and college-bound" (line 5)"flung carelessly as the stars" (line 21)60s
- Q8Which two lines come closest to contradicting each other?Lines 18 and 23Lines 5 and 13Lines 6 and 14Lines 19 and 3860s
- Q9The speaker and the drive-in customers are portrayed through descriptions of theirrelationship to material possessionsclothing and physical appearancemannerisms and tones of voiceattitudes toward life60s
- Q10Which of the following literary devices is most used in the poem?SimileParadoxSynecdocheAllusion60s