Nothing Gold Can Stay

What according to nature is gold?

• Its first gold
• Its first green
• Its last green
• Early leaves

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

The name of the poet is _________

• William Wordsworth
• Robert Frost
• Rabindranath Tagore
• John Keats

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

The antonym for dawn is _____

• dusk

• morning

• sun rise

• night

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the theme of the poem?

• Nature's beauty is its flowers
• Nothing precious stays for ever
• Everything subsides immediately
• Hold on to life as long as you can

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Who is the poet referring to when he says, "Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower"

• Johnny's mum
• Mother Nature
• Ponyboy's mum
• Eden

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"Nature's first green" refers to

• summer
• leaves
• spring
• grass

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Hue means...

• shape
• size
• color
• time

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

Eden is a reference to

• paradise
• the sun
• a bad place 
• the author's home

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CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

In the book, the poem is first recited

• by Johnny, in the lot-

• by Dally, at school

• by Ponyboy, in the church

• by Darry, at the funeral

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

"So Eden sank to grief." What allusion is being made here?

• The Garden of Eden
• Heaven's Gate
• Adam and Eve
• The novel "East of Eden"

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5