Test Your Knowledge


1	All of the following are true of Seamus Heaney EXCEPT:
		A)	He was born in Ireland.
		B)	He was born in New York City.
		C)	He won the Nobel Prize in 1995.
		D)	His poems often deal with nature.
		E)	His poems often deal with politics.


2	"Punishment":
		A)	Describes the sacrificial killing of a woman who perishes in a bog
		B)	Includes a speaker who reflects on his deceased relatives
		C)	Contains a scene of shocking violence
		D)	All of the above
		E)	None of the above


3	How does the speaker imagine he would have responded to witnessing the crime against the woman?
		A)	He envisions himself rescuing her from the bog.
		B)	He describes his desire to scold those who injure the woman.
		C)	He claims he would have remained silent and done nothing.
		D)	He fears he would have endangered himself by trying to save her.
		E)	He thinks that he would have participated actively in her punishment.


4	To whom does the speaker compare the punished woman?
		A)	To Eve
		B)	To his mother
		C)	To women of his generation
		D)	To Pandora
		E)	To Salome


5	"Punishment":
		A)	Is a sonnet
		B)	Is a kind of elegy
		C)	Is an epic
		D)	Is written in a tight, closed form
		E)	Is an ode

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