AP Multiple Choice "Mirror"

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The word "swallow" (line 2) is best understood to mean I. absorb or envelop II. accept without question III. keep from expressing of showing

A) I and II

Which of the following best restates the meaning of line 9?

A) People block the mirror's view of the wall, and it cannot see it in the dark.

Taken alone, the phrase "I see her back" (line 13) suggests that the mirror does all the following EXCEPT

A) empathize with the woman and feel a need to reflect her "faithfully"

The speaker implies that the "candles (and) the moon" are "liars" (line 12) because

A) they offer a light that makes the woman appear more attractive than she is

"(H)er face that replaces the darkness" (line 16) refers to the

A) woman's turning on the light

The most notable shift that separates the two stanzas is a change in

B) focus, from the mirror to the woman

The antecedents of the pronoun "us" in line 9 are

B) the mirror and the pink wall

The poet's choice of the word "faithfully"in line 13 most directly reinforces

C) "unmisted"(line 3)

The phrase "eye of a little god" (line 5) is best interpreted to imply

C) The mirror's unassailable dominance

The poem draws its perspective primarily from

C) extended personification of the mirror

Which of the following best describes the poem as a whole?

E) a somber reflection on our own perceptions of our own again


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