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Post-1945 Modern Pastoral Poetry Quotes

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Quote test on modern pastoral poetry for the AQA litb4 exam
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Question 1

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In Dylan Thomas's 'Fern Hill', what is the rest of this quote: "lilting house and …"
Answer
  • I was green and carefree
  • happy as the grass was green
  • hay fields high as a house

Question 2

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Complete the quote from 'Poem in October': "__________ /____________ shore"
Answer
  • other
  • springful larks
  • heron priested

Question 3

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In 'Poem in October', what did the speaker's birthday begin with?
Answer
  • water
  • rain

Question 4

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Fill in the blanks of the quote from 'Poem in October': "his _____ burned my _______ and his _____ moved in ________"
Answer
  • tears / face / hands / mine
  • smell / cheek / heart / yours
  • tears / cheeks / heart / mine

Question 5

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Complete the quote from 'Going, going': "We can always … "
Answer
  • stand in silence
  • escape in the car
  • remember this place

Question 6

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Fill in the blanks of the quote and name the poem: "but ______/ And _______ are too ______-_______ / To be _____ up now"
Answer
  • Church Going: greed, rubbish, thick-spread, cleaned
  • Horticultural Show: beetroots, rinds, far under, picked
  • Going Going: greeds, garbage, thick-strewn, swept

Question 7

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Is this quote from 'Church Going' correct? : "Cathedrals chronically on show/Their pyx, plate and parchment in locked cases"
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 8

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Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'Church Going': "but _________ like ______, must die"
Answer
  • disbelief, religion
  • churches, belief
  • superstition, belief

Question 9

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In 'Show Saturday', what are the leeks described to be like?
Answer
  • church candles
  • blanched candles
  • blanched extrusions

Question 10

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Is this quote from the final stanza of 'Show Saturday' correct? : "Something people do,/Not realising how time's rolling smithy-smoke/Shadows much greater gestures"
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 11

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Which poem does this quote come from?: "Man's a believer/Until corrupted"
Answer
  • UA Fanthorpe - Canal:1977
  • Elizabeth Jennings - A Chorus
  • RS Thomas - A Peasant

Question 12

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Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'Absence' : "It was because the place was just the same/That made your absence seem a ______ _______"
Answer
  • savage force
  • earthquake tremor
  • terrible loss

Question 13

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In 'In a Garden', how does the gardener leave?
Answer
  • Quickly god-like
  • Silently christ-like
  • Quietly godlike

Question 14

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Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'In a Garden': "________ for ________ was too strong"
Answer
  • Longing, Eve
  • Sickness, Eden
  • Sickness, Adam

Question 15

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How are the animals described in 'Canal:1977'?
Answer
  • 'serious lurchers' 'sly horses' and 'superior dogs'
  • 'cunning lurchers' 'superior horses' 'serious dogs'
  • 'sly lurchers' 'serious horses' 'superior dogs'

Question 16

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How is the sparrow's "taste in clothes" described in 'Sparrow'?
Answer
  • artistic
  • dowdy
  • slummy
  • golden
  • gaudy

Question 17

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What would the sparrow rather do than "sing solitary" etc etc in 'Sparrow'?
Answer
  • fist-fight in the slum
  • punch-up in a gutter
  • fly over A-levels and O-levels

Question 18

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Fill in the blanks from 'Birds all Singing' : "_________ makes them ______ / or so we are told - they woo no ______ and ______"
Answer
  • sweet
  • bliss
  • sweetness
  • fair
  • possession
  • sing
  • territory
  • myth

Question 19

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What do birds "shake … /Like clenched fists in the world's uncaring face" in 'Birds all Singing'?
Answer
  • false acres
  • possessions
  • savage cries

Question 20

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The fruits belong to who in 'Horticultural Show'?
Answer
  • Proserpine
  • Persephone
  • Hades

Question 21

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Where have the carrots been in 'Horticultural Show'?
Answer
  • heart of darkness
  • depths of underworld
  • depths of darkness

Question 22

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What does the "ordinary man of the bald welsh hills" do in 'A Peasant'?
Answer
  • "pens some sheep in a gap of clouds"
  • "pens a few sheep in a gap of cloud"
  • "draws a few sheep in a gap of clouds"

Question 23

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In 'A Peasant', what is described as "crude'?
Answer
  • hands
  • earth
  • skin
  • land

Question 24

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How often does the sun "crack[s] the cheeks/Of the gaunt sky" in 'A Peasant'?
Answer
  • once a month
  • once a year
  • once a week

Question 25

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Fill in the gaps of the quote from 'Welsh Landscape': "Above the noisy _______/And ___ of the _________/Of _________ in the strung ______"
Answer
  • forest
  • hum
  • vehicle
  • strife
  • struggle
  • tractor
  • woods
  • machine

Question 26

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What are the "impotent people" "sick" with in 'Welsh Landscape'?
Answer
  • Disease
  • Inbreeding
  • Incest

Question 27

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Fill in the blank of the quote from 'Invasion on the Farm': "the old farm/Warm as a _____ about me, feel the cold/Winds of the world"
Answer
  • sack
  • bag
  • coat

Question 28

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"last year", what was Harrison "full of" in 'A Kumquat for John Keats'?
Answer
  • self-loathing
  • self-defeat
  • sick
  • bile
  • hate

Question 29

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Fill in the blanks of the quote from 'A Kumquat for John Keats': "Instead of 'grape against the ________ _____',/would have, if he'd known it, ______ for mine"
Answer
  • taste
  • palate
  • plate
  • fine
  • wine
  • plumped
  • went

Question 30

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Was Harrison "forced to write/how Eve's apple tasted at the first bite" in 'A Kumquat for John Keats'?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 31

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Which is the correct order of the missing blanks in 'A Kumquat for John Keats': "crunching kumquats, thinking, as he eats/ the _______, the _______, the _____, the ______, the peel/ that this is how a full life ought to _______"
Answer
  • peel, juice, flesh, pith, pips, feel
  • flesh, pith, pips, peel, juice, feel
  • flesh, juice, pith, pips, peel, feel
  • juice, flesh, pips, pith, peel, feel
  • pips, pith, peel, juice, flesh, feel
  • none of the above

Question 32

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Fill in the blanks: "A thing no bigger than an ___ explodes/and ________ all silence and all _____"
Answer
  • apple
  • urn
  • destroys
  • burn
  • odes
  • ravishes

Question 33

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What is the name of Keats's lover?
Answer
  • Fanny Dawn
  • Fanny Brawne
  • Granny Morn

Question 34

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The " strong sun burns away the sky's grey haze"
Answer
  • True
  • False
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