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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Livings," how many days does the narrator spend in the hotel?

2. Finish this line from "Mr. Bleaney": "That how we live measures ________."

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

4. In what year was the collection "The Whitsun Weddings" published?

5. Finish this line from "Homage to a Government": "All we can hope to leave them is ________."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the collection "The Whitsun Weddings," death is a popular theme. Write an essay on the theme of death in the collection. Make sure you use at least four examples in your argument.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

"The Whitsun Weddings" is both the title of a poem and a collection. Write an essay on the importance of the poem in the collection of the same name, using at least two other poems from the collection in your argument.

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