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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Sad Steps," what is the narrator reminded of while watching the sunrise?
(a) Rainbows.
(b) Death.
(c) Hope.
(d) Youth.

2. Finish this line from "The Building": "Though crowds each evening try with wasteful, weak, propitiatory _________."
(a) Congratulations.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Kisses.
(d) Farewells.

3. In the poem "Here," where is the narrator swerving in the first stanza?
(a) East.
(b) West.
(c) North.
(d) South.

4. In the poem "Poetry of Departure," what does the narrator say he gets sick of?
(a) Home.
(b) Letters.
(c) Traveling.
(d) Reality.

5. In the poem "Maiden Name," what did marriage do to the woman?
(a) Helped her become a new woman.
(b) Saved her from spinsterhood.
(c) Left her alone.
(d) Erased her old identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of the poem "Solar"?

2. What is the subject of the poem "I Remember, I Remember"?

3. In the poem "Mr Bleaney," where did Mr. Bleaney stay till they moved him?

4. Finish this line from the poem "Going, Going": "Excuses that make them all ______."

5. In the poem "Skin," what does the narrator call his skin?

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