Case at the Bat Quiz

What is the crowd in Mudville watching?

• a game

• a movie

• a tv show

• a play

What is the climax of this poem?

• when Jimmy and Flynn get to second and third base (lines 13-16)

• when Casey stepped up to bat (lines 21-24)

• when Casey lets the first ball pass without swinging at it (lines 29-32)

• when Casey is taking a swing at the third ball (lines 45-48)

The people watching the baseball game felt that Casey could help the Mudville team win the game.

Which lines from the poem best support this conclusion?

• lines 1-4

• lines 5-8

• lines 13-16

• lines 29-32

Read lines 21-28 of the poem. How does Casey probably feel when he first steps up to bat?

• confident

• shy

• sleepy

• worried

What is the main idea of the poem?

• The people of Mudville think that Casey will lose the baseball game for his team, and Casey does lose the game.

• The people of Mudville think that Casey will lose the baseball game for his team, but Casey wins the game instead.

• The people of Mudville are sure that Casey will win the baseball game for his team, and Casey does win the game.

• The people of Mudville are sure that Casey will win the baseball game for his team, but Casey loses the game instead.

. In the first half of the poem, the poet uses many similar phrases like "Casey at the bat" (line 8, line 24), "Casey getting to the bat" (line 12), and "Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat" (line 20). Why might the poet have used such similar phrases over and over?

• to show the reader that Casey is a very good baseball player

• to make the reader get excited about Casey coming to bat

• to hint that Casey often bats during baseball games

• to suggest that the people watching the game do not want Casey to bat

Read these stanzas from the poem.

"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered fraud; But one scornful look from Casey, and the audience was awed. They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again. The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.

In the second of these stanzas, the poet uses verbs in a different tense from all of the previous stanzas. How does the verb tense change between the previous stanzas and this second stanza?

• The previous stanzas were in past tense, and this stanza is in present tense

• The previous stanzas were in present tense, and this stanza is in past tense.

• The previous stanzas were in future tense, and this stanza is in present tense.

• The previous stanzas were in present tense, and this stanza is in future tense.

What is the theme of the story?

• Being over confident can be dangerous
• Practice makes perfect
• Don't be mean to others
• Look both ways before you cross the street

"5,000 tongues applauded..." is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Hyberbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

What is the reader's mood at the end of this poem?

• Joy

• Disappointment

• Anger

• Fear