Question

Excerpted from "The Children's Hour"
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do you think, o blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!

Which word describes the poet's feelings in these lines from "The Children's Hour"?
A. amused
B. feeble
C. competitive
D. exasperated

Answer 1

C is the best choice because he is expressing that the banditti is not better than him, even though the banditti thinks so.