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Question 8 • CMS 2026-2027 English III CREDIT RECOVERY

Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall," by Robert Frost. 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. What is Frost describing that “doesn’t love a wall”?

Answer
A
neighbors
B
ice
C
sunlight
D
boulders

Explanation

Frost describes frozen ground swelling beneath the wall and pushing the stones apart. The force that makes the ground swell is ice, so the poem’s “something” that doesn’t love a wall is ice. Sunlight is mentioned as the place where the boulders spill, not as the force breaking the wall.

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