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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What pleases the narrator in the poem "Church Going"?
(a) Watching the people walk into church.
(b) Listening to church music.
(c) Standing in an empty church.
(d) Going to Sunday Mass.

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

4. In the poem "Faith Healing," what phrase in italics is repeated?
(a) What's wrong.
(b) Like losing thoughts.
(c) Exiled.
(d) Dear child.

5. In "Heads in the Woman's Ward," what does the narrator say smiles are for?
(a) Children.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Youth.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Building," what kind of building is the poem about?

2. In the poem "An Arudel Tomb," what are the earl and countess secretly doing?

3. In the poem "Deceptions," what does the ruined woman in the epigraph claim?

4. In the poem "Arrivals, Departures," what line is in parentheses?

5. In "Story," what does the main character grow tired of?

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