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"The Witch Of Coos"

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Frost, Robert : "The Witch Of Coos"

Introduction:
"If you think Frost wrote only such things as "Birches" and "Mending Wall", here's a poetic ghost story he did!"


1. When the narrator stays at a New Hampshire farm for the night, who owns it?
    a farmer
    a 4-H club
    a farmer's widow
    a witch and her son


2. What does he say she can do?
    fly a broomstick
    make a table kick like a mule
    tell fortunes in a crystal ball
    turn a toad into a man


3. What is her spirit contact?
    Clarence Goodbody
    Harry Houdini
    Ralle the Sioux Control
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


4. What is unusual about their attic?
    They rent it to vampires
    Ghosts haunt it
    They have a skeleton in it
    They raise spiders in it


5. What season does the story take place?
    autumn
    spring
    winter
    summer


6. Was the then-married woman sleeping alone or with her husband?
    Answer: (One Word)


7. Where did the Thing come from?
    from a grave in the cellar
    from an anatomy class
    from a graveyard
    from a boiling cauldron


8. And how did it enter the house?
    through the cellar door
    through the bedroom window
    through a hole in the floor
    through the hall door


9. What did she do to it when it entered?
    gave the bones to the dog
    burned the bones in a fireball
    ground the bones into powder
    knocked its hand off


10. What was it in life?
    a man the husband killed
    a neighbor
    a travelling salesman
    a rival wizard


11. When it reached the attic, what did the couple do?
    ground it to dust
    gave it to the dog
    stomped on it
    nailed it up in the attic


12. What folk song was the favorite of the Thing when alive?
    Casey Jones
    The Wild Colonial Boy
    John Henry
    On Top Of Old Smokey


13. Where does she keep a piece of it?
    her button-box
    her safe
    her locket
    under her pillow


14. What is the husband's name?
    Tom Smith
    Rufus Galt
    Homer Vandergelder
    Toffile Lajway


15. T or F: Frost wrote the poem in rhyme.
    True
    False


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