Ana
Sucaldito
Mrs.
Wilson
AP
Multicultural Literature B
15
January 2013
Multiple Choice Questions for “The Poem as Mask”
Orpheus
When I wrote of
the women in their dances and
wildness, it was a mask ,
on
their mountain , gold-hunting, singing , in orgy
it
was a mask ; when I wrote of the god,
fragmented,
exiled from himself , his life, the love gone
down with song,
it
was myself , split open, unable to speak, in exile from
myself.
There
is no mountain, there is no god, there is memory
of
my torn life, myself split open in sleep, the rescued
child
beside
me among the doctors, and a word
of
rescue from the great eyes.
No
more masks! No more mythologies!
Now,
for the first time, the god lifts his hand,
the
fragments join in me with their own
music .
1. The
mask in “The Poem as Mask” is an example of the literary device:
A. Caesura
B. Allusion
C. Hyperbaton
D. Motif
E. Litote
2. The
purpose of the imagery in Line 1-8 is to:
A. Contrast
the speaker’s dreams with his reality
B. Establish
the setting
C. Describe
the subject of what [Rukeyser] wrote” (1)
D. Develop
character
E. Name
the setting
A.
Orpheus
B.
The
women
C.
The
song
D.
The
fragments
E.
Herself
4.
Using
Line 15-16, the reader can infer removing the masks:
A.
Resurrects
the “fragmented” (7) god
B.
Further
destroys the speaker
C.
Heals
the speaker
D.
Causes
the women on the mountain to sing
E.
Results
in no change
5.
Line
14, “No more masks! No more mythologies” does all of the following:
I.
Answers a question
II. Uses anaphora
for emphasis
III. Varies the
syntax to indicate a turning point
A.
II
only
B.
I
and II
C.
II
and III
D.
I
and III
E.
I,
II and III
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