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Mid-Term Break Quiz

1 Who is the poem's speaker?
A father of three

A boarding school student

A toddler

A university professor
2 What is the speaker's relationship to the deceased?
They are best friends

They are brothers

They are a parent and child

They are a grandparent and grandchild
3 How old was the speaker's loved one when they died?
17

80

10

4
4 Where does the speaker wait before getting picked up from school?
The courtyard

The biology lab

The dormitory

The sick bay
5 Who sits with and soothes the speaker's father?
Jacob Johnson

Eric Matthews

Belinda O'Toole

Jim Evans
6 The short "E" sounds in the line “Counting bells knelling classes to a close” create which of the following?
Alliteration

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Assonance
7 Where does the poem take place?
Wales

Scotland

Ireland

England
8 How does the speaker's loved one die?
From a wartime gunshot wound

From polio

From being struck by a car

From cancer
9 How does the speaker feel when encountering public mourning rituals?
Exhausted

Excited

Grateful

Embarrassed
10 What emotion does the speaker's mother express?
Anger

Guilt

Protectiveness

Curiosity
11 How does the behavior of the speaker's father differ from his typical behavior?
He cries here, but normally is stoic

He is quiet here, but is normally gregarious

He is in denial here, but is normally direct and blunt

He is angry here, but normally is patient
12 Which Irish tradition is described in the poem?
The burial

The wake

The last rites

The stopping of clocks
13 What do the flowers at the bedside of the dead symbolize?
Purity

Love

Immortality

War
14 What kind of flowers are left beside the dead?
Snowdrops

Lillies

Cowslips

Poppies
15 Which of the following are personified in the poem?
The shroud covering the corpse

Bells

Pipes and cigarettes

Flowers and candles
16 Which line contains the most prominent instance of alliteration?
"At two o'clock our neighbours drove me home."

"By old men standing up to shake my hand"

"A four-foot box, a foot for every year."

"Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple"
17 Which of the following comparisons are used to obliquely convey the age of the dead?
The descriptions of the other family members

The number of candles

The funeral guests' greetings

The size of the coffin
18 The poem's title can best be described as which of the following?
Hyperbolic

Understated

Allegorical

Metaphorical
19 Which genre does the poem belong to?
Elegy

Satire

Epic

Aubade
20 Which type of stanza does the poem primarily consist of?
Quintains

Tercets

Couplets

Quatrains
21 Which word best describes the poem's tone?
Somber

Disgusted

Angry

Soothing
22 The line "No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear," includes which of the following?
Metonymy

Synecdoche

Alliteration

Simile
23 Which of the following words is onomatopoetic?
"stanched"

"held"

"blow"

"coo"
24 How many stanzas are in this poem?
4

10

8

5
25 Which of the following is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Death and grief

The arts

The failure of language

Family relationships

Contrast the readers reaction of the two parents

Are you referring to the book Mid-Term Break?

Asked by Keelan W #1268056

Answered by Aslan on 11/3/2022 5:40 PM

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Why was the boy embarrassed?

From the text:

I was embarrassed because the old men who'd come over to the house kept standing up to shake my hand.

Asked by Fortune N #1250910

Answered by Aslan on 8/19/2022 2:57 AM

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What does the child learn in the poem?

I think the child learns a few things. He discovers the impermanence of life: his young brother tragically killed by a car. He also discovers how mourning is handled in different ways. Heaney’s poem is a portrait of the reality that there is no “...

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Answered by Aslan on 8/14/2021 10:47 PM

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