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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the coming season do to the narrator of the poem "Coming"?
(a) Makes him feel like a kid again.
(b) Makes him want to move to another place.
(c) Makes him sad.
(d) Makes him apprehensive.

2. In the poem "Reference Back," what is the narrator doing?
(a) Playing records.
(b) Thinking about high school.
(c) Visiting his hometown.
(d) Reading at the library.

3. Who is the narrator of the poem "Wedding-Wind"?
(a) A newly married woman.
(b) A newly married man.
(c) A stable boy.
(d) Larkin himself.

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

5. What is the final line of the poem "A Study of Reading Habits"?
(a) Books are a load of crap.
(b) I broke them up like meringues.
(c) Evil was just my lark.
(d) Two dirty dogs twice my size.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Faith Healing," what phrase in italics is repeated?

2. What poem is this opening line from: "At last you yielded the album, which,/ Once open, sent me distracted"?

3. In the poem "MCMXIV," what line is repeated?

4. What pleases the narrator in the poem "Church Going"?

5. In "Dawn," what does the poet say is strange?

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