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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase is italicized in the poem "Next, Please"?
(a) How slow they are!
(b) Till then.
(c) But we are wrong.
(d) Right to the last.

2. Finish this line from "Mr. Bleaney": "That how we live measures ________."
(a) The value of ourselves.
(b) Our own nature.
(c) How successful we will be.
(d) Our importance in the world.

3. In the poem "Nursery Tale," what does the narrator say he remembers?
(a) A maiden.
(b) A horseman.
(c) A garden.
(d) A soldier.

4. 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) Two dirty dogs twice my size.
(d) Evil was just my lark.

5. In the poem "Climbing the Hill," what does the narrator find falling?
(a) Swans.
(b) Ancient sadness.
(c) Raindrop tears.
(d) Snow.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "I Dreamed of an Out-thrust Arm," what is the narrator empty of?

2. What "irritant" is mentioned in the poem "Dry-Point"?

3. In the poem "Spring," where is the narrator?

4. In the poem "Morning Has Spread Again," how many times has the narrator and his subject met?

5. To whom is "All Catches Alight" dedicated?

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