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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poem is this opening line from: "At last you yielded the album, which,/ Once open, sent me distracted"?
(a) "Wants."
(b) "Whatever Happened?"
(c) "Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album."
(d) "At Grass."

2. What is the nationality of the girl on the train in "Like the Train's Beat"?
(a) Italian.
(b) Russian.
(c) French.
(d) Polish.

3. How many parts compose "The North Ship"?
(a) Two.
(b) Nine.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

4. What phrase is italicized in the poem "Next, Please"?
(a) How slow they are!
(b) Till then.
(c) But we are wrong.
(d) Right to the last.

5. In "Dawn," what does the poet say is strange?
(a) That the cock crows at dawn.
(b) That each morning is new.
(c) That the heart is loveless.
(d) That the dawn should break.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Skin," what does the narrator call his skin?

2. Finish the line from "Wants": "Beneath it all, desire of ______ runs."

3. In the poem "Arrivals, Departures," what line is in parentheses?

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

5. What types of games are long gone in the poem "Cut Grass"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the poem "Maiden Name," what has marriage done to the subject? What is the result of this?

2. In "The Building," what kind of building is the narrator describing? What kind of building does he compare it to?

3. In the poem "Broadcast," what popular figure is on television? What does the narrator notice was dropped?

4. In the poem "Talking in Bed," how does the narrator feel about talking in bed? What does he say is hard to do?

5. In "Femmes Damnes," what is the photograph of? What is the only sound heard?

6. What is the narrator looking at in the poem "Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album"? What does the narrator say about the nature of photography?

7. What line is repeated in the poem "All Catches Alight"? What purpose does the repeated line serve?

8. In "Since the Majority of Me," what does "the majority of me" reject? What is the result of this?

9. In the poem "Within the Dream," of what does the narrator dream? What is his reaction to this dream?

10. What is the narrator talking to in the poem "I Put My Mouth"? What is the poem about?

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