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QuizMultiple Choice

Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging”

Question 12 • CA-English Language Arts 12 B – 1744

Read the excerpt from "Digging."The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slapOf soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edgeThrough living roots awaken in my head.But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

Answer
A
cold, curt, cuts
B
potato, mould, follow
C
peat, edge, living
D
edge, head, them
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