Poem Predators

Which creatures in “Predators” are domesticated?

Choose TWO options.

• the speaker

• the feline

• the vixen

• the herbs

• the sun

When the speaker in “Predators” says, “In sun the fox / bows to my feline and her good / dog friends who rule this land,” what does she mean?

• The fox feels embarrassed when it sees the pets.

• The fox understands that the cat and dogs know best.

• The fox does not approach when the cat and dogs are

  around.

• The fox wants to hunt the other animals that live on the

  property.

In “Predators,” whose “sorry looks” is the speaker watching at the end of the poem?

• the cat's

• the dog's

• the foxes'

• a farmer's

What is the “bevy of vixen” doing at the end of “Predators”?

• bowing to the domesticated animals

• rumning back into the wild woods

• running away from the dogs

• eating a small mammal

Which of the following people would be most likely to cultivate land? Base your answer on the meaning of cultivate.

• a farmer

• an inspector

• an architect

• a real estate agent

What is one major theme of “Predators”?

• the natural world vs. the civilized world

• the unending need for nourishment

• humans’ love for their pets

• gardens in springtime

When the speaker in “Predators” says, “I cannot smell the scent of the cat / who slept on this sweater,” with whom or what is she most likely comparing herself?

• felines

• gardeners

• wild animals

• pungent herbs

What does the speaker in “Predators” mean when she refers to “my feline and her good dog friends”?

• Both the dogs and the cat want to be like the wild foxes

  they see.

• She feels a closer relationship to the cat than to the

  dogs.

• The cat only pretends to get along with the dogs.

• The dogs are tame and mean the cat no harm.

Read these lines from “Predators.”

…I hoe

and cultivate, find my dead aim

in the trust that many tales spun

this tract long before I came

WHAT do these lines REVEAL about the speaker?

• She is new to gardening.

• She is irritated at having to work.

• She appreciates the history of her land.

• She enjoys telling stories about her home.

Which of these statements are true about the stanzas in “Predators”?

Choose TWO options.

• The stanzas are of different lengths.

• Each stanza equals a single sentence.

• Each stanza is about a different topic.

• The stanzas break in the middle of ideas.

• The stanzas present parts of one long sentence.