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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 "Send No Money," what does the narrator say he spent his youth chasing?
(a) Money.
(b) Girls.
(c) Truth.
(d) Fame.

2. In the poem "Here," where is the narrator swerving in the first stanza?
(a) West.
(b) South.
(c) North.
(d) East.

3. In "Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel," where have the salesmen gone?
(a) To catch the train.
(b) Back to Leeds.
(c) Back to London.
(d) Home for the night.

4. Finish this line from "Fiction and the Reading Public": "Just please me for two generations - you'll be _______."
(a) Only a bit late.
(b) Truly great.
(c) Worthy of hate.
(d) Bound by fate.

5. What is the subject of the poem "Water"?
(a) Religion.
(b) Drinking water.
(c) Politics.
(d) Lakes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What object is the subject of the poem "Whatever Happened"?

3. In the poem "Annus Mirabilis," when did sexual intercourse begin?

4. What emotion does the narrator of the poem "Wedding-Wind" feel?

5. What is the name of the cafe in "Going, Going"?

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