Q.1.
Read the poem - The Dog. How are the events in the poem arranged?
Q.2.
Read the poem - The Dog. What does the shelter look like?
Q.3.
Read the poem - The Dog. In which stanzas does the reader first learn that the narrator wants to adopt a dog?
Q.4.
Read the poem - The Dog. What do you learn about the dog in the fourth stanza?
Q.5.
Read the poem - The Dog. If the third stanza was the first stanza in the poem, what problem would the reader have?
Q.6.
Read the poem - The Dog. Why are the first two stanzas included in the poem?
Q.7.
Read the poem - The Dog. What do you learn about the narrator in the last stanza?
Q.8.
Read the poem - The Dog. What happens in the third stanza?
Q.9.
Read the poem - The Dog. When does the reader know Scruffy was the dog for the narrator?
Q.10.
Read the poem - The Dog. What is the narrator doing in the first stanza?