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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?

2. In the poem "The Importance of Elsewhere," where is the poet?
(a) France.
(b) America.
(c) England.
(d) Ireland.

3. In "This Be the Verse," who are the subjects of the poem?
(a) Aunts and uncles.
(b) Parents.
(c) Grandparents.
(d) Cousins.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last line of the poem "The Old Fools"?

2. Finish this line from "Homage to a Government": "All we can hope to leave them is ________."

3. In the poem "Afternoons," what season is approaching?

4. What does the poet describe in the poem "Essential Beauty"?

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

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