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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Resumen del Recurso

Pregunta 1

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

Pregunta 2

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

Pregunta 3

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

Pregunta 4

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

Pregunta 5

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

Pregunta 6

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

Pregunta 7

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

Pregunta 8

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

Pregunta 9

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

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
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"
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 11

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

Pregunta 12

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

Pregunta 13

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

Pregunta 14

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

Pregunta 15

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

Pregunta 16

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

Pregunta 17

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

Pregunta 18

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

Pregunta 19

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

Pregunta 20

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

Pregunta 21

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

Pregunta 22

Pregunta
What does the "ordinary man of the bald welsh hills" do in 'A Peasant'?
Respuesta
  • "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"

Pregunta 23

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

Pregunta 24

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

Pregunta 25

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

Pregunta 26

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

Pregunta 27

Pregunta
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"
Respuesta
  • sack
  • bag
  • coat

Pregunta 28

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

Pregunta 29

Pregunta
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"
Respuesta
  • taste
  • palate
  • plate
  • fine
  • wine
  • plumped
  • went

Pregunta 30

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

Pregunta 31

Pregunta
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 _______"
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 32

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

Pregunta 33

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

Pregunta 34

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