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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines for an Old Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the last name of "Cousin Nancy"?
(a) Sokoski.
(b) Ellicott.
(c) Slingsby.
(d) Eliot.

2. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?
(a) The ten-thousandth.
(b) The hundredth.
(c) The eightieth.
(d) The fiftieth.

3. What image is used as a metaphor in the second Landscape?
(a) A marketplace.
(b) A field.
(c) A river.
(d) A kingdom.

4. Where are children's voices heard in the Landscape of New Hampshire?
(a) The front yard.
(b) The orchard.
(c) The dining hall.
(d) The bedroom.

5. Whom does the poet shall "try" man's well-preserved complacency in the third of the "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) The worm.
(b) The light.
(c) The dog.
(d) The dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. The enemy in "Lines for an Old Man" is said to be dangling from what?

2. Who is said to be unpleasantly met in the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises"?

3. For what does the speaker in "A Song for Simeon" wait like a feather on the back of his hand?

4. Who shall be the speaker's bride in A Cooking Egg?

5. The speaker of "Hysteria" concentrates his attention with "careful subtlety" to achieving what end?

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