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Robert FrostAfter Apple-Picking
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Reading Comprehension Questions
1. What chiefly preoccupies the farmer’s mind as he tries to sleep?
A) He worries that he will not get his apple crop harvested before winter.
B) He wonders if he is too old to be harvesting apples.
C) He assesses both his day’s work and a lifetime spent apple harvesting.
D) He cannot shake the fear that he will die in his sleep.
2. Why is it important that the apples be “cherish[ed] in hand, lift[ed] down, and not let fall” (Line 31)?
A) The farmer knows that this is his last harvest.
B) The apples that fall cannot be sold to eat and become cider.
C) The farmer is afraid too many apples have already been spoiled.
D) The apples symbolize the farmer’s children.
3. What did the farmer see in the “pane of glass” (Line 10)?
A) Hoary grass
B) His reflection
C) Apples
D) A vision
4. What causes the speaker’s “instep arch” to ache (Line 21)?
A) The rung of a ladder
B) Tree branches
C) Stepping on apples
D) Bee stings
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