Question 1

What evidence from the text tells the reader that this is not a literal carriage ride?

Accepted Answer

The carriage held but just ourselves and Immoritality

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The roof was was scarcely visible

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We passed the school, where children strove....

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We paused before a House that seemed a swelling of the ground...

Question 2

What attitude does Dickinson portray Death?

Accepted Answer

Death is kind and friendly

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Death is a memory

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Death requires patience

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Death is scary

Question 3

What is being compared to a house?

Accepted Answer

a grave

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the home Dickinson grew up in

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a neighborhood

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the house the speaker lived in

Question 4

In what direction are the horses' heads pointed?

Accepted Answer

toward eternity

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toward the setting sun

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toward the cemetery

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toward the unknown

Question 5

Who is riding in the carriage?

Accepted Answer

Death, the poet, and Immortality

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the poet and immortality

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Death and the poet

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the poet

Question 6

At what place is there a pause in the journey?

Accepted Answer

by a grave

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by a house

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by a school

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by a barn

Question 7

What does the poet put aside when Death stops by?

Accepted Answer

her labor and leisure

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her troubles

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her peace of mind

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her sewing

Question 8

What does the poet say passes the carriage?

Accepted Answer

the setting sun

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the farmers field

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another carriage

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a funeral procession

Question 9

What image in the poem suggests a person becoming old and dying?

Accepted Answer

the setting sun

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children at recess

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fields of grazing grain

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swelling ground

Question 10

What image in the poem suggests a person becoming old and dying?

Accepted Answer

the setting sun

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fields of grazing grain

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swelling ground

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children at recess

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