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Test: Common Core: 4th Grade English Language Arts
Adapted from "From a Railway Carriage" in A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone for ever!
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Adapted from "Snow Dust" by Robert Frost in The Yale Review (January, 1921)
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
1. | The poem "From a Railway Carriage" primarily consists of which of the following? |
Descriptions of the things the narrator sees quickly passing by
An argument about why train travel is the best form of transportation
Description of all of the different people and things riding on a train the narrator is on
An extended visual description of a train
A story about how the narrator prepared to go on a train trip, what he or she saw, and how he or she returned home afterward
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