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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the poem "Posterity," what does the biographer want to do for a year?
(a) Travel the world.
(b) Finish a novel.
(c) Learn to play piano.
(d) Teach in Tel Aviv.

2. In the poem "An Arudel Tomb," what are the earl and countess secretly doing?
(a) Singing.
(b) Crying.
(c) Holding hands.
(d) Talking to each other.

3. In the poem "The Whitsun Weddings," what time of the afternoon is the poem set?
(a) 12:20.
(b) 2:20.
(c) 3:30.
(d) 1:20.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "The Old Fools," what question is asked at the end of the first stanza?

2. In "The Trees," what does the narrator say the greenness of the leaves is?

3. In "Sympathy in White Major," what does the narrator drink?

4. Finish this line from the poem "Days": "Days are where ________."

5. In "Dublinesque," what name is heard in the street?

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