Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What is the traveler doing when we first meet him?
Fishing
Reading
Surfing the internet
Hastening to the town
Q. What does he leave on the shore?
A diet coke
Footprints
A new Samsung Galaxy phone
A new HP laptop
Q. What happens to the things he leaves?
They're effaced.
It's waterproof so it doesn't matter.
Nothing because he didn't leave anything.
Another traveler takes it.
Q. What does the speaker say about the traveler in the final stanza?
That he went to an inn and checked in for the night.
That he went to Barnes and Noble.
He doesn't mention the traveler in the final stanza.
That he never returned to the shore
Q. In the final stanza, what does the speaker's point about the traveler mean, really?
Nothing
Everything
That the traveler has died
This is not the right question to ask.