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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the poem "Afternoons," what season is approaching?
(a) Fall.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

2. In "Posterity," what is the name of the biographer?
(a) Aaron Kuzueski.
(b) Frank Reynolds.
(c) Noel Winterson.
(d) Jake Balokowsky.

3. In the poem "Broadcast," what popular figure is on television?
(a) The president.
(b) The queen.
(c) The prime minister.
(d) An actress.

4. In the poem "Wild Oats," how much did the narrator pay for the ring?
(a) Two guineas.
(b) Fifty guineas.
(c) Ten guineas.
(d) Thirty guineas.

5. In the poem "Naturally the Foundation Will Bear Your Expenses," who is the narrator going to meet?
(a) Professor Lal.
(b) The Queen.
(c) Professor Havord.
(d) Morgan Forster.

6. In "The Card-Players," what is the weather outside?
(a) Snow.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) Rain.
(d) Hail.

7. In the poem "Take One Home for the Kiddies," what happens to the animal that is brought home?
(a) It runs away.
(b) It dies.
(c) The children love it.
(d) The children fight over it.

8. In the poem "The Old Fools," what question is asked at the end of the first stanza?
(a) How are they so old?
(b) How can they ignore it?
(c) Why aren't they screaming?
(d) How can they implore it?

9. In the poem "Dockery and Son," what does the narrator eat?
(a) An apple.
(b) An awful pie.
(c) A banana.
(d) A hamburger.

10. In "Dublinesque," what is passing through the streets?
(a) A trolley.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A bus.
(d) A parade.

11. In "Sympathy in White Major," what does the narrator drink?
(a) Lemonade.
(b) Soda.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Gin.

12. In the poem "Sympathy in White Major," how many ice cubes does the narrator put in his glass?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

13. Finish this line from the poem "Days": "Days are where ________."
(a) We wait for death.
(b) We watch our lives.
(c) We live in.
(d) We grow ourselves.

14. In the poem "To the Sea," for what does the narrator search the sand?
(a) Cricket squeaks.
(b) Jiminy Cricket.
(c) Famous cricketers.
(d) Cricket jumpers.

15. What is the last line to the poem "Home Is So Sad"?
(a) Long fallen wide.
(b) The music in that piano stool.
(c) Home is so sad.
(d) That vase.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Reference Back," what is the narrator doing?

2. In "Dublinesque," what name is heard in the street?

3. In "The Trees," what does the narrator say the greenness of the leaves is?

4. In "Homage to a Government," why are the soldiers coming home?

5. In "Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel," what is the porter doing?

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