Liberty University: ENGL 102 - ENGL 102 Test 2. Questions and Answers.

Liberty University: ENGL 102 - ENGL 102 Test 2. Questions and Answers. ● Question 1 In lines 7-8, the narrator is trying to 1.6 out of 1.6 points Tom when he tells him, “Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head's bare, / You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.” Selected Answer: comfort ● Question 2 1.6 out of 1.6 points The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “green plain” (line 15) represents . Selected Answer: hope for a better and happier future ● Question 3 1.6 out of 1.6 points The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “coffins of black” (line 12) represent . Selected Answer: the chimneys in which the boys work ● Question 4 1.6 out of 1.6 points The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho' the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” This is dramatic irony in the sense that . Selected Answer: the poet knows and sees more than the child does