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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Posterity," what is the name of the biographer?

2. Finish this line from the poem "Ignorance": "Our flesh surrounds us with ________."

3. In the poem "Dockery and Son," what does the narrator eat?

4. In the poem "Afternoons," what is the wind ruining?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Like dance, song plays a key role in many of Larkin's poems. Write an essay on Larkin's use of song in the collection "The Whitsun Weddings."

Essay Topic 2

Using the poems "Kick Up the Fire" and "If Grief Could Burn," write a compare/contrast essay on the nature of fire and grief in the collection "The North Ship."

Essay Topic 3

A unique theme in Larkin's collection "The Less Deceived" is photography. Using a minimum of two poems, write an essay on the theme of photography in this collection.

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