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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Words Made Flesh.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Children under twelve accounted for approximately what percentage of deaths in 1900?
(a) Half.
(b) One-eighth.
(c) One-fourth.
(d) One-third.

2. How old was Thomas Lynch's oldest child when he divorced?
(a) Eight.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eleven.

3. What kind of service did the Irish priest who married Lynch say he wanted?
(a) A graveside service.
(b) A solemn high mass.
(c) A simple low mass.
(d) No service.

4. In what year did Tommy Lynch die?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1972.

5. What did Lynch's mother convince her husband to get their son Dan?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A BB gun.
(c) A trampoline.
(d) A swimming pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ethnic food did Robertson and his wife enjoy in celebration of the poem's publication?

2. What style poem did Nugent write?

3. What was St. Stephen the patron saint of?

4. Approximately how many of his townspeople were cremated each year?

5. What poet made the statement about men dying for what they miss in poetry?

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