The Patriot

What is the irony of the path the patriot uses at the beginning and end of the story?

• When he walks down it first, he is being greeted joyfully by the crowd. But later, he is walking the path to his demise.

• When he walks down the path first, he is happy, but later he is upset about doing so

• First when the patriot walks down the path, he is greeted by the crowd, but later he is going to massacre them

• both B and C

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What do the lines "Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels--- But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, " And afterward, what else?" " represent?

• The crowd jumping to catch the sun

• The comparison between the crowd now and a year hence

• The eagerness of the crowd to do as the patriot asks

• The joy the crowd feels in conversing with the patriot

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Why is the public congregating at Shambles' Gate?

• To watch the Patriot get rewarded for his year of hard work

• To watch the Patriot get hung for his year of misdeeds

• To watch the Gladiators fight

• To throw myrtle and roses in the Patriot's path

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The Speaker of the poem, a patriot, received a grand reception from the people a year ago as....

• his path was filled with roses and turtle.

• his path was filled with roses and olives..

• his path was filled with roses and more roses.

• his path was filled with roses and myrtle.

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The poem, 'The Patriot' is a harsh and critical satire on....

• people's fickle minded attitude

• religious intolerance.

• heroic martyrdom

• public hero worship

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The frenzy of the people at patriot's arrival, exactly a year ago, is seen in the lines……….

• The house- roofs seemed to heave and break.

  The church bells rang, loud noise they make

• The horse- hoofs seemed to heave and sway

  The chariot-spokes broke up in flames,

• There's nobody on the house -tops,

  Just a palsied few on the windows set.

• The house- roofs seemed to heave and sway,

  The church-spires flamed, such flags they had,

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I am safer so, means...

• God will grace him and he will be rescued from the gallows.

• God will repay him in the heaven after his death. So he is safer now to surely go to heaven and win God's grace there.

• God punishes only the sinners so he will be set free.

• God will make people trust the Patriot again.

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"Alack! It was I who leapt at the sun" What does the line suggest about the patriot?

• Very anxious

• Very happy

• Jumped at being overjoyed

• Over ambitious

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In the poem, 'The Patriot,' who was sitting at the window set?

• Palsied people

• Young men

• Children and women

• The Patriot

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What were the people doing on their rooftops?

• Dancing

• Shouting

• Gathered to see the patriot

• Throwing stones at the patriot

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