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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Verses from Limits and Renewals and Miscellaneous Verse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the woman in "Old Mother Laidinwool" return to as it gets cold and dark?
(a) To her grave.
(b) To the convent.
(c) To her mother's home.
(d) To her husband.

2. What is referred as a lady in "Brown Bess"?
(a) A horse.
(b) A road.
(c) A boat.
(d) A rifle.

3. What is the man in "The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief" use to stealing?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Steers.
(c) Cows.
(d) Goats.

4. What does "The Hour of the Angel" speak of?
(a) Marriage.
(b) The moment of death and judgment men must face.
(c) The moment of victory.
(d) The moment of birth.

5. What does Kipling make the case of sending young men back to after war?
(a) Their family.
(b) To mental institutions.
(c) Their studies.
(d) To training.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is hidden under Kipling's verses?

2. How does the King reward the man in "The Ballad of the King's Jest"?

3. Whose lives does "The Masque of Plenty" describe?

4. What is Boanerges Blitzen's profession in "The Man Who Could Write"?

5. What do the men in "Wilful-missings" do during the war?

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