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How Well Do You Remember Junior Cert Poetry?

Has your memory served you well?
1.24pm, 8 Oct 2015
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First of all, what did Tich Miller wear?
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Shoes with a two-inch lift
Glasses with elastoplast-pink frames

Stocking with great long ladders
Who wrote Dulce et Decorum Est?
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Siegfried Sassoon
Seamus Heaney

Wilfred Owen
William Wordsworth
Which of these is NOT a line in Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney?
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"Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple"
"He lay in the four foot box as in his cot"

"Lillies and candles soothed the bedside"
"No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear"
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" -- What line comes next in this Shakespeare sonnet?
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Thou art more lovely and more pleasant
Thou art more pleasant and more temperate

Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Thou art more lovely and more gentle
Fill in this line from WB Yeats' The Lake Isle of Inishfree. "I hear ___ water ___ with ___ sounds by the shore"
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Sea, splashing, soft
Lake, lapping, low

River, racing, low
Lake, lapping, soft
How many bean rows was Yeats to have in Inishfree?
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Nine bean rows
Eight bean rows

Ten bean rows
"Remember the time you lent me your car and I dented it? I thought you'd kill me..." are the opening lines to which poem?
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Tich Miller by Wendy Cope
In Memory of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh

But You Didn't by Merrill Glass
How did Heaney describe the kittens in The Early Purges?
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Scaldy wee sh**s
Scraggy wee s**s

Scrawny wee sh**s
"I wandered lonely as a cloud...." -- What's the next line?
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That hangs on high o'er vales and hills
That floats on high o'er slopes and hills

That floats on high o'er vales and hills
Answer all the questions to see your result!
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You scored out of !
Did you even do the Junior Cert?
How do we compare thee to a Junior Cert student? Thou aren't so clever.
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
Did you even do the Junior Cert?
How do we compare thee to a Junior Cert student? Not very favourably.
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
Did you even do the Junior Cert?
How do we compare thee to a Junior Cert student? Not very favourably.
Share your result:
You scored out of !
Did you even do the Junior Cert?
How do we compare thee to a Junior Cert student? Not very favourably.
Share your result:
You scored out of !
You've forgotten bits and pieces...
But you still acquitted yourself well!
Share your result:
You scored out of !
You've forgotten bits and pieces...
But you still acquitted yourself well!
Share your result:
You scored out of !
You've forgotten bits and pieces...
But you still acquitted yourself well!
Share your result:
You scored out of !
Look at you!
You remember The Lake Isle of Inishfree like it was yesterday. Go on ya good thing!
Share your result:
You scored out of !
Look at you!
You remember The Lake Isle of Inishfree like it was yesterday. Go on ya good thing!
Share your result:
You scored out of !
Look at you!
You remember The Lake Isle of Inishfree like it was yesterday. Go on ya good thing!
Share your result:

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