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"The Witch Of Coos" Trivia Quiz

If you think Frost wrote only such things as "Birches" and "Mending Wall", here's a poetic ghost story he did!

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
tjoebigham

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
91,408

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
290

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. When the narrator stays at a New Hampshire farm for the night, who owns it? Hint

a 4-H club

a farmer

a witch and her son

a farmer's widow

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Question 2 of 15

2. What does he say she can do? Hint

fly a broomstick

make a table kick like a mule

tell fortunes in a crystal ball

turn a toad into a man

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Question 3 of 15

3. What is her spirit contact? Hint

Ralle the Sioux Control

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Harry Houdini

Clarence Goodbody

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Question 4 of 15

4. What is unusual about their attic? Hint

They rent it to vampires

Ghosts haunt it

They have a skeleton in it

They raise spiders in it

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Question 5 of 15

5. What season does the story take place? Hint

spring

winter

summer

autumn

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Question 6 of 15

6. Was the then-married woman sleeping alone or with her husband?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 7 of 15

7. Where did the Thing come from? Hint

from a graveyard

from a boiling cauldron

from an anatomy class

from a grave in the cellar

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Question 8 of 15

8. And how did it enter the house? Hint

through the bedroom window

through the cellar door

through the hall door

through a hole in the floor

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Question 9 of 15

9. What did she do to it when it entered? Hint

knocked its hand off

ground the bones into powder

gave the bones to the dog

burned the bones in a fireball

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Question 10 of 15

10. What was it in life? Hint

a rival wizard

a travelling salesman

a man the husband killed

a neighbor

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Question 11 of 15

11. When it reached the attic, what did the couple do? Hint

ground it to dust

nailed it up in the attic

stomped on it

gave it to the dog

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Question 12 of 15

12. What folk song was the favorite of the Thing when alive? Hint

Casey Jones

On Top Of Old Smokey

John Henry

The Wild Colonial Boy

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Question 13 of 15

13. Where does she keep a piece of it? Hint

her locket

her button-box

her safe

under her pillow

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Question 14 of 15

14. What is the husband's name? Hint

Tom Smith

Rufus Galt

Homer Vandergelder

Toffile Lajway

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Question 15 of 15

15. T or F: Frost wrote the poem in rhyme.

True

False

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. When the narrator stays at a New Hampshire farm for the night, who owns it?

Answer: a witch and her son

Pretty much a "gimme" considering the title! Coos, by the way, is a New Hampshire county.

2. What does he say she can do?

Answer: make a table kick like a mule

The son says she can "make a common table rear and kick with two legs like an army mule."

3. What is her spirit contact?

Answer: Ralle the Sioux Control

Ralle was an Indian Agent watching over the Sioux tribe. The great Houdini exposed fraudulent mediums, while Doyle was a devout Spiritualist. Clarence is the angel from "It's A Wonderful Life".

4. What is unusual about their attic?

Answer: They have a skeleton in it

And how it got there is as chilling a horror story as any told, as you'll see!

5. What season does the story take place?

Answer: winter

The cellar doors were buried under a thick winter snowbank.

6. Was the then-married woman sleeping alone or with her husband?

Answer: alone

Her husband couldn't stand the way she "went to sleep before (I) went to bed", so he turned her out and she slept alone in a cold room.

7. Where did the Thing come from?

Answer: from a grave in the cellar

The bones were buried in the cellar, but exhumed themselves and walked up to the door to the house.

8. And how did it enter the house?

Answer: through the hall door

It entered through the door to the hall.

9. What did she do to it when it entered?

Answer: knocked its hand off

She struck its hand off when it first tried to get in.

10. What was it in life?

Answer: a man the husband killed

Frost never states the reason for the husband's murder. Was the man having an affair with the wife? Was he a thief? We never learn.

11. When it reached the attic, what did the couple do?

Answer: nailed it up in the attic

They pushed the headboard of her bed to the attic door and nailed it there.

12. What folk song was the favorite of the Thing when alive?

Answer: The Wild Colonial Boy

The old Irish-Australian song is best known from the classic John Ford film "The Quiet Man". The snow made the bones think of it and it tried to get outside to dance to it.

13. Where does she keep a piece of it?

Answer: her button-box

One of the finger bones was kept in her button-box, though she doesn't find it there when she tells the story, and never finds it again.

14. What is the husband's name?

Answer: Toffile Lajway

The witch mentions his first name often during the poem and the narrator sees the full name on the letter box the next morning at the poem's end.

15. T or F: Frost wrote the poem in rhyme.

Answer: False

Frost wrote "The Witch Of Coos", as he did many of his work, in blank verse, an unrhymed form of poetry in iambic pentameter.

Source: Author tjoebigham

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