1 The South Boston Aquarium has been... Reopened Repurposed Closed Renovated 2 An advertisement for _____ insensitively uses an image of Hiroshima. A brand of watch A movie A brand of safes A skin care product 3 Colonel Shaw served in... The Vietnam War World War I World War II the Civil War 4 What animal does the final stanza compare cars to? Snakes Cats Fish Zebras 5 William James was a prominent soldier in Shaw's regiment. True False 6 The monument sticks "like a(n) ______/in the city's throat" Olive pit Pill Fishbone Ice cube 7 The waists on the stone statues of soldiers are compared to: Wasps Swans Mosquitos Herons 8 What two words appear in the following sentence in the poem? "(The) _____ is nearer." Bay / Ghost Mountain / Harbor Ditch / Space Ditch / Mountain 9 What does Colonel Shaw's father want? His son's weapon A better monument Nothing The ditch 10 What does Colonel Shaw wait for at the end of the poem? A greyhound's gentle tautness The blessèd break An end to violence A parking spot 11 A character in the poem can "almost hear the bronze Negroes _____" Yell Die Sing Breathe 12 Who made the relief? St. Gaudens Colonel Shaw St. Andrew William James 13 "a savage servility/slides by on _____" grease butter oil water 14 Colonel Shaw is compared to two animals. They are: sperm whale / Greyhound wasp / Greyhound wasp / Border Terrier wren / Greyhound 15 "Its Colonel is as lean/as a ______." blade of grass corn husk compass-needle needle 16 What are the "yellow dinosaur steamshovels" building? A parking garage Luxury condos A mall A movie theater 17 What desert does Lowell reference in the first stanza? Gobi Sahara Mojave Sonoran 18 "Once my nose crawled like a ___ on the glass;" Hermit crab Snail Starfish Leech 19 "[Colonel Shaw] seems to wince at ____, and suffocate for ____." improprieties / progress conflict / peace racism / equality pleasure / privacy 20 "He is out of bounds now." Who does this refer to? Lowell William James Colonel Shaw's father Colonel Shaw 21 What does the poem refer to as "Rock of Ages"? a Mosler safe television the bronze relief of Colonel Shaw and his regiment the South Boston Aquarium 22 The aging representations of Union Soldiers "doze over ____ and muse through their ___" novellas / classes rifles / afternoons cannons / hardships muskets / sideburns 23 "...when he leads his black soldiers to death, he cannot ___ his ____." redirect / horse break / back turn / face bend / back 24 What has happened to "the bronze weathervane cod" in the first stanza? It has lost half of its scales It has snapped off in a storm It is the only thing that hasn't changed since Lowell's childhood It has been mysteriously stolen 25 What is St. Gauden's relief made of? Bronze Copper Marble Stone
