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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the subject of the poem "Solar"?
(a) Earth.
(b) The sun.
(c) Mars.
(d) Pluto.

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

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

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

10. Finish this line from the poem "Ignorance": "Our flesh surrounds us with ________."
(a) Its own precision.
(b) Organs of life.
(c) Breath and hope.
(d) Its own decisions.

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

12. 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 can they ignore it?
(c) How are they so old?
(d) How can they implore it?

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "This Be the Verse," who are the subjects of the poem?

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

3. In the poem "The Large Cool Store," what does the store sell?

4. In the poem "High Windows," what does the narrator say about the sky?

5. In the poem "The Whitsun Weddings," what time of the afternoon is the poem set?

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