read the poem "MASSES" by Carl Sandburg


1. What lines in the poem does the speaker express his amazement
and wonder at the sight of majestic mountains and the poor whom
he considers great men as they worked through life.
A. First two lines
B. First line
C. First three lines
D. First four lines
2. Who are considered as --great menl in the poem.
A. The Rich
B. The Poor
C. The Middleclass
D. The Businessmen
3. What distinct quality of the poor was highlighted that the
speaker in the poem called them -great meni?
A. Arrogance
B. Patience
C. Sloth
D. Greed
4. What realities of life are contrasted in the poem?
A. broken, humble ruins of nations and divine majesty of the
mountains, blue haze crags, tides of the beach and prairie
under the stars.
B. Pageants of war and laboral
C. Majestic mountains and blue haze and red cragile
D. Soldiers, workers and mothers lifting their children
5. What does the title of the poem MASSES suggest?
A. The -Masses the lowest stratum of society that is equated
with the highest transcendent abstraction of the majesty of
nature
B. The poor as harsh reality of life
C. Being poor is a great degradation
D. The masses that are referred to as the poor must be
perceived with contempt.​