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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. What is the ritual described in "The Cuckoo Song"?
(a) Cuckoos leaving for better climates.
(b) Cuckoos laying its eggs.
(c) An old woman feeding a cuckoo each spring.
(d) A young man playing with a cuckoo.

2. What does Jubal believe in doing in "Jubal and Tubal Cain"?
(a) Following its leader blindly.
(b) Staying out of the affair of the world.
(c) Preaching about the evils of earth.
(d) Taking action to help right the wrongs.

3. Whose trial is described in "Gallio's Song"?
(a) Joseph's.
(b) Paul's.
(c) Mark's.
(d) Ronald's.

4. What does Kipling think of the punishment of Cain in "Cain and Abel"?
(a) It might not have been fair.
(b) It was too leniant.
(c) It might have been too harsh.
(d) It was too late.

5. What does Kipling refer to in "The Junk and the Dhow"?
(a) His youth of voyages and study.
(b) Sailors and ships of the old age.
(c) Australia.
(d) The Queen herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the British soldier in "Mandalay" want to be sent back to?

2. What can "little" people become according to "A Pict Song"?

3. What is happening in"Three Sealers"?

4. What does the man in "McAndrew's Hymn" realize about his good behavior?

5. What does Kipling say the people in "The Declaration of London" had a taste of?

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