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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poem is this opening line from: "At last you yielded the album, which,/ Once open, sent me distracted"?
(a) "Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album."
(b) "At Grass."
(c) "Whatever Happened?"
(d) "Wants."

2. What types of games are long gone in the poem "Cut Grass"?
(a) Bird watching.
(b) Cattle auctions.
(c) Cattle roping.
(d) Horseraces.

3. In the poem "Heaviest of Flowers," to what does the narrator compare memories?
(a) Roses.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Geese.
(d) Apples.

4. In "Dawn," what does the poet say is strange?
(a) That the dawn should break.
(b) That the cock crows at dawn.
(c) That the heart is loveless.
(d) That each morning is new.

5. Finish this line from the poem "Ignorance": "Our flesh surrounds us with ________."
(a) Organs of life.
(b) Its own precision.
(c) Its own decisions.
(d) Breath and hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Card-Players," what is the weather outside?

2. What is the subject of the poem "Going"?

3. In the poem "The Whitsun Weddings," what time of the afternoon is the poem set?

4. In "The Moon Is Full Tonight," what is gone from earth?

5. In "Dublinesque," what is passing through the streets?

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