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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What line is repeated in "All Catches Alight"?
(a) A drum taps; a wintry drum.
(b) Beat, beat, cried the drum.
(c) Drum to the beat of your soul.
(d) Drum on, patriot.

2. What does the narrator address in the poem "If I Could Free You"?
(a) The mind.
(b) The heart.
(c) A prisoner.
(d) Nature.

3. In the poem "Nursery Tale," what does the narrator say he remembers?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A garden.
(c) A horseman.
(d) A maiden.

4. In the poem "Pour Away That Youth," what fear is expressed?
(a) Fear of life.
(b) Fear of death.
(c) Fear of failure.
(d) Fear of ghosts.

5. In the poem "I Dreamed of an Out-thrust Arm," what is the narrator empty of?
(a) Tears.
(b) Hope.
(c) Love.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Heaviest of Flowers," to what does the narrator compare memories?

2. In the poem "I Put My Mouth," what does the narrator tell the stream and wind they will not find?

3. In the poem "So Through That Unripe Day," what do the days lose?

4. In the poem "Kick Up the Fire," what causes instantaneous grief?

5. Finish this line from the poem "One Man Walking": "One man restlessly waiting ______."

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