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

2. What instrument is mentioned in the poem "Reasons for Attendance"?
(a) A violin.
(b) A trumpet.
(c) A clarinet.
(d) A guitar.

3. To whom is "All Catches Alight" dedicated?
(a) Montgomery Ward.
(b) Bruce Wayne.
(c) Warden Montgomery.
(d) Bruce Montgomery.

4. In the poem "Maiden Name," what did marriage do to the woman?
(a) Left her alone.
(b) Erased her old identity.
(c) Saved her from spinsterhood.
(d) Helped her become a new woman.

5. Who is the author of this book of poetry?
(a) Larking Philips.
(b) Phillip Lawson.
(c) Philip Larkin.
(d) Phillip Laykin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish this line from the poem "No Road": "Since we agreed to let the road between us ___________."

2. In the poem "Reasons for Attendance," where is the narrator?

3. In the poem "Is It for Now or For Always," what does the narrator call his lover?

4. What "irritant" is mentioned in the poem "Dry-Point"?

5. In the poem "Morning Has Spread Again," how many times has the narrator and his subject met?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In "Portrait," to what do the woman's hands devote themselves? What are her enemies?

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

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

7. In the poem "Love Songs in an Age," what object(s) did the woman keep? What does this do for the woman?

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

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

10. Who is the narrator of the poem "Wedding-Wind"? What emotion is the narrator feeling in the poem?

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