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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Finish this line from "Homage to a Government": "All we can hope to leave them is ________."
(a) Love.
(b) Money.
(c) Hope.
(d) Memories.

2. In "Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel," where have the salesmen gone?
(a) To catch the train.
(b) Back to London.
(c) Back to Leeds.
(d) Home for the night.

3. In the poem "Talking in Bed," what does the narrator say about talking in bed?
(a) It is a tradition.
(b) It is a bother.
(c) It should be easiest.
(d) It shouldn't be done.

4. Finish this line from the poem "Days": "Days are where ________."
(a) We live in.
(b) We grow ourselves.
(c) We wait for death.
(d) We watch our lives.

5. In the poem "Nothing to be Said," what does the poet say life is?
(a) Slow dying.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Waiting for something good to come.
(d) Watching the days pass.

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish this line from the poem "Going, Going": "Excuses that make them all ______."

2. In "Dublinesque," what is passing through the streets?

3. In the poem "The Whitsun Weddings," what time of the afternoon is the poem set?

4. In the poem "Broadcast," what popular figure is on television?

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

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