Practice Test

Question 1 • English III

Which lines from "Mending Wall" indicate that the neighbor is willing to participate in mending the wall?

Answer

We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall:

To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: “Stay where you are until our backs are turned!”

I let my neighbour know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

Explanation

In choice C, the neighbors “meet to walk the line” and “set the wall between us once again,” showing that the neighbor joins in the repair. The other choices describe handling stones, the wall’s damage, or the speaker’s thoughts rather than the neighbor participating in mending it.

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