Lesson 4.2.2.21

4.2.2.21 New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney Quiz: AQA English Literature, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. In which county of Northern Ireland was Seamus Heaney born?

    • County Derry
    • County Armagh
    • County Down
    • County Antrim

  2. Which poem is the opening poem of Heaney's first collection, Death of a Naturalist?

    • Digging
    • Death of a Naturalist
    • Punishment
    • Mid-Term Break

  3. In Seamus Heaney's poem 'Digging', what tool does the speaker choose to work with?

    • A hammer
    • A sickle
    • A spade
    • A pen

  4. Which poem describes the death of a young brother, shown through the image of the coffin?

    • Digging
    • Blackberry-Picking
    • Mid-Term Break
    • Punishment

  5. Which Seamus Heaney poem explores the preserved body of an ancient murder victim?

    • Follower
    • Digging
    • Mid-Term Break
    • Punishment

  6. Which landscape features most prominently throughout Seamus Heaney's poetry?

    • Rural Northern Ireland
    • Coastal Scotland
    • Urban Dublin
    • Industrial London

  7. In Heaney's 'The Tollund Man', ancient bog bodies are linked to which modern issue?

    • Urban poverty
    • Climate change
    • Sectarian violence
    • Industrialisation

  8. In 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded which Nobel Prize?

    • Peace
    • Economics
    • Literature
    • Physics

  9. In Heaney's poetry, language is primarily connected to which concept?

    • Place and memory
    • Political ideology
    • Scientific progress
    • Urban decay

  10. In Punishment, Heaney links ancient ritual sacrifices to which contemporary conflict?

    • World War One
    • The Irish Famine
    • The Easter Rising
    • The Troubles

  11. Which technique does Heaney primarily use in Blackberry-Picking to evoke vivid physical memories?

    • Sensory imagery
    • Abstract symbolism
    • Syllogistic logic
    • Rhyming couplets

  12. In Heaney's early poetry, what does the rural farm primarily represent?

    • Religious conflict
    • Family and labour
    • Imperial power
    • Industrial progress

  13. In poems such as Follower, what aspect of his father does Heaney admire?

    • Physical skill
    • Political power
    • Scholarly learning
    • Artistic genius

  14. What does the bog symbolise in Heaney's middle-period poetry?

    • The preserved past
    • Future industrialisation
    • Total destruction
    • Political revolution

  15. Which 1975 collection by Seamus Heaney contains several famous Bog Poems?

    • Death of a Naturalist
    • Field Work
    • North
    • Wintering Out

  16. According to Heaney's poetic ethos, what must a poet address with honesty?

    • Commercial profit
    • History and violence
    • Scientific advancement
    • Foreign conquest

  17. What tone does Heaney achieve by writing many of his poems in the first person?

    • Detached and satirical
    • Formal and distant
    • Intimate and personal
    • Heroic and epic

  18. In Mid-Term Break, what causes the central grief of the speaker's family?

    • A political exile
    • A brother's death
    • A house fire
    • A crop failure

  19. Through which faculty does Heaney primarily explore and understand the past?

    • Economic analysis
    • Scientific deduction
    • Memory and imagination
    • Political ideology

  20. Which structural feature creates a sense of ritual in Heaney's elegiac poems?

    • Slang vocabulary
    • Free verse
    • Repetition
    • Unrhymed prose

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