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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the poem "The Trees," what word is repeated three times?
(a) Again.
(b) Afresh.
(c) Thresh.
(d) Dead.

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

3. In the poem "Livings," what kind of constellations are mentioned at the end of the poem?
(a) Flowering.
(b) Grecian.
(c) Roman.
(d) Chaldean.

4. Finish this line from "Homage to a Government": "All we can hope to leave them is ________."
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Memories.

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

6. In the poem "Afternoons," what is the wind ruining?
(a) The clouds' beauty.
(b) Tree's leaves.
(c) Courting-places.
(d) Sandboxes.

7. When was the collection "High Windows" published?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1968.

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

9. What is the name of the cafe in "Going, Going"?
(a) F6.
(b) M5.
(c) F2.
(d) M1.

10. In "Self's the Man," what is the name of the character that the narrator is comparing himself?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Eric.
(c) Arthur.
(d) Arnold.

11. Finish this line from "High Windows": "And everyone young going down the long slide to _______."
(a) Happiness.
(b) Old Age.
(c) Faith.
(d) Death.

12. In the poem "For Sidney Bechet," the narrator says a note is reflected like which city on the water?
(a) Seattle.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) London.
(d) Liverpool.

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

14. What is the final line of the poem "A Study of Reading Habits"?
(a) I broke them up like meringues.
(b) Two dirty dogs twice my size.
(c) Books are a load of crap.
(d) Evil was just my lark.

15. What is the last line of the poem "The Card-Players"?
(a) This lamplit cave.
(b) Rain, Wind, and Fire!
(c) The secret, bestial peace!
(d) Belching out smoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of the poem "Water"?

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

3. Finish this line from "The Building": "Though crowds each evening try with wasteful, weak, propitiatory _________."

4. In the poem "An Arundel Tomb," what lies at the earl and countess' feet?

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

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