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Mid-Term Break Quiz

1 Who is the poem's speaker?
A university professor

A boarding school student

A toddler

A father of three
2 What is the speaker's relationship to the deceased?
They are a grandparent and grandchild

They are best friends

They are brothers

They are a parent and child
3 How old was the speaker's loved one when they died?
4

80

17

10
4 Where does the speaker wait before getting picked up from school?
The dormitory

The biology lab

The sick bay

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

Belinda O'Toole

Eric Matthews

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

Alliteration

Personification

Onomatopoeia
7 Where does the poem take place?
Ireland

Wales

Scotland

England
8 How does the speaker's loved one die?
From being struck by a car

From a wartime gunshot wound

From cancer

From polio
9 How does the speaker feel when encountering public mourning rituals?
Grateful

Exhausted

Embarrassed

Excited
10 What emotion does the speaker's mother express?
Curiosity

Guilt

Anger

Protectiveness
11 How does the behavior of the speaker's father differ from his typical behavior?
He is quiet here, but is normally gregarious

He cries here, but normally is stoic

He is angry here, but normally is patient

He is in denial here, but is normally direct and blunt
12 Which Irish tradition is described in the poem?
The burial

The stopping of clocks

The wake

The last rites
13 What do the flowers at the bedside of the dead symbolize?
War

Immortality

Love

Purity
14 What kind of flowers are left beside the dead?
Poppies

Lillies

Cowslips

Snowdrops
15 Which of the following are personified in the poem?
Flowers and candles

Pipes and cigarettes

The shroud covering the corpse

Bells
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"

"Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple"

"A four-foot box, a foot for every year."
17 Which of the following comparisons are used to obliquely convey the age of the dead?
The size of the coffin

The descriptions of the other family members

The number of candles

The funeral guests' greetings
18 The poem's title can best be described as which of the following?
Metaphorical

Understated

Allegorical

Hyperbolic
19 Which genre does the poem belong to?
Epic

Satire

Elegy

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

Quatrains

Tercets

Couplets
21 Which word best describes the poem's tone?
Angry

Somber

Disgusted

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

Synecdoche

Simile

Metonymy
23 Which of the following words is onomatopoetic?
"blow"

"held"

"stanched"

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

5

10

8
25 Which of the following is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Family relationships

Death and grief

The arts

The failure of language

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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