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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. In the section "80 Degrees North" from "The North Ship," how many claws does the woman has?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

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

3. In the poem "The Bottle Is Drunk," what is the narrator sick from?
(a) Want of sleep.
(b) Heartache.
(c) The cold.
(d) Pneumonia.

4. In the poem "Deceptions," what does the ruined woman in the epigraph claim?
(a) That it was a masquerade.
(b) That she was drugged.
(c) That her husband was not who she thought he was.
(d) That she deceived someone.

5. In the poem "Waiting for Breakfast," what is the female character doing?
(a) Making toast.
(b) Brushing her hair.
(c) Turning on the stove.
(d) Reading the newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object is the subject of the poem "Whatever Happened"?

2. In the poem "If Grief Could Burn Out," to what does the narrator compare grief?

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

4. In the poem "Wants," what does the narrator want more than anything?

5. What does the coming season do to the narrator of the poem "Coming"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator say that home is sad in the poem "Home is so Sad"? Name at least two household objects the narrator talks about in the poem.

3. In the poem "The Large Cool Store," what does the store sell? What is the end of the poem about?

4. 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?

5. In "Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel," to what does the narrator compare the hotel? What kind of letters do the people write?

6. In the poem "Faith Healing," what are the women doing? How are they trying to do this?

7. In the poem "Toads Revisited," where is the narrator? What does he contemplate?

8. In "A Writer," what gift did the writer possess? How was the narrator different from other people then?

9. What is the poem "Take one Home for the Kiddies" about? What happens to this object?

10. In "Going, Going," what is tougher than humans? How is it tougher than humans?

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