To Helen Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around To Helen? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. To what does the speaker compare Helen's beauty in the first stanza?


Penelope Cruz
A bomb
Nicean barks
Zeus
Q. What does the word "barks" mean?


Cars
Ships
Trees
Dog barks
Q. What did those "barks" do?


Carried a weary, way-worn wanderer
Blew up
They carried the president home
They didn't do anything
Q. Where was the wanderer's final destination?


London
Troy
New York City
His native shore
Q. To whom might "weary, way-worn wanderer" be an allusion?


Ferris Bueller
Bill O'Reilly
Hyacinth
The Roman poet Catullus