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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the poem "The Large Cool Store," what does the store sell?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Cheap clothes.
(c) Meat.
(d) Hardware.

2. In the poem "Forget What Did," what was a stun to memory?
(a) Forgetting her name.
(b) Burning the pictures.
(c) Stopping the diary.
(d) Learning a language.

3. In "Femmes Damnes," what is in the letter-box?
(a) The Observer.
(b) The Guardian.
(c) The Daily Planet.
(d) The Daily Press.

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

5. In what year was the collection "The Whitsun Weddings" published?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Posterity," what is the name of the biographer?

2. In "May Weather," what object is characterized as a floodlight?

3. What does the narrator address in the poem "If I Could Free You"?

4. Finish this line from the poem "One Man Walking": "One man restlessly waiting ______."

5. In the poem "Nothing to be Said," what does the poet say life is?

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