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Casey at the Bat
P 36-37
Stanza 1
1. What is the name of the baseball team in the poem? (line 1)
2. What was the score of the game? (line 2)
Stanza 2
3. Who do the fans want to get to bat? (line 8)
Stanza 3
4. What was there little chance of? (line 12)
Stanza 4
5. Who “tore the cover off the ball”? (line 14)
6. Which base does Flynn end up on? (line 16)
Stanza 5
7. Who ends up at the bat? (line 20)
Stanza 6
8. What was there on Casey’s face? (line 22)
Stanza 7
9. Where does the pitcher hit Casey with the pitch? (line 27)
Stanza 8
10. What does Casey say after not swinging at the first pitch? (line 32)
Stanza 9
11. What did someone shout at the game? (line 35)
Stanza 10
12. What does Casey do to the second pitch? (line 40)
Stanza 11
13. What does the audience know that Casey won’t let happen? (line 44)
Stanza 12
14. What is the air shattered by? (line 48)
Stanza 13
15. Why is there no joy in Mudville? (line 52)