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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poet describe in the poem "Essential Beauty"?
(a) The country.
(b) Shop windows.
(c) His lover.
(d) Nature.

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

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

4. In "Sad Steps," what is the narrator reminded of while watching the sunrise?
(a) Death.
(b) Hope.
(c) Rainbows.
(d) Youth.

5. In the poem "The Whitsun Weddings," what time of the afternoon is the poem set?
(a) 12:20.
(b) 2:20.
(c) 3:30.
(d) 1:20.

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

7. In the poem "Sympathy in White Major," what does the narrator say is not his favorite color?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

8. In "Dublinesque," what name is heard in the street?
(a) Katy.
(b) Huey.
(c) Mary.
(d) Sally.

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

10. In the poem "Love Songs in Age," what is the widow playing?
(a) The violin.
(b) Records.
(c) The radio.
(d) The piano.

11. In "Homage to a Government," why are the soldiers coming home?
(a) They lack money.
(b) The draft was revoked.
(c) They are defeated.
(d) The war is over.

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

13. What is the last line of the poem "The Old Fools"?
(a) Those old fools.
(b) Into the blue.
(c) We shall find out.
(d) Listen once more.

14. In the poem "An Arundel Tomb," what lies at the earl and countess' feet?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Jewels.
(c) Gold.
(d) Flowers.

15. Finish this line from "The Building": "Though crowds each evening try with wasteful, weak, propitiatory _________."
(a) Farewells.
(b) Kisses.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Congratulations.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Here," where is the narrator swerving in the first stanza?

2. In the poem "Faith Healing," what phrase in italics is repeated?

3. In "Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel," where have the salesmen gone?

4. In the poem "The Old Fools," what question is asked at the end of the first stanza?

5. In the poem "To the Sea," for what does the narrator search the sand?

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