Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Frost at Midnight? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What does Coleridge call the church bells he heard on Fair Days, when he was still living in his birthplace?
"sonic emblems of time"
"loud ringing chancellors of fate"
"the poor man's only music"
"really annoying"
Q. What does he say about the goings on in the town and countryside around him, at the beginning of the poem?
They are "really spooky, people—like, so spooky…you don't even know."
They are "full of carols that gently float."
They are "most obtrusive in the silence."
They are "inaudible as dreams."
Q. What does Coleridge say that God does by giving to the spirit?
He makes it feel like it can fly.
He makes it feel really dizzy.
He makes it feel embarrassed.
He makes it ask.
Q. How does Coleridge say the four seasons will seem to his son?
"sweet"
"some will seem better than others"
"just kind of blah"
"full of melancholy woe"
Q. What does the frost "perform" in the poem?
an "unknown agency"
a "snow-cone creating dream"
a "secret ministry"
a "wintery vision"