Seamus Heaney: "Mossbawn: Sunlight"

Question 1

There was ____

Answer 1

There was a sunlit absence

Question 2

___ a sunlit absence

Answer 2

There was a sunlit absence

Question 3

____ in the yard heated its iron

Answer 3

The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron

Question 4

The helmeted pump ___ heated its iron

Answer 4

The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron

Question 5

The helmeted pump in the yard ____

Answer 5

The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron

Question 6

The ___ pump in the yard heated its iron

Answer 6

The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron

Question 7

___ in the slung bucket

Answer 7

Water honeyed in the slung bucket

Question 8

Water ___ in the slung bucket

Answer 8

Water honeyed in the slung bucket

Question 9

Water honeyed ___

Answer 9

Water honeyed in the slung bucket

Question 10

Water honeyed in the ____

Answer 10

Water honeyed in the slung bucket

Question 11

Water honeyed in the ___ bucket

Answer 11

Water honeyed in the slung bucket

Question 12

Quote the first stanza of the poem

Answer 12

There was a sunlit absence
The helmeted pump in the yard
heated its iron,
water honeyed

Question 13

___ like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

Answer 13

And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

Question 14

And the sun stood ___ cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

Answer 14

And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

Question 15

And the sun stood like a griddle ____ of each long afternoon

Answer 15

And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

Question 16

And the sun stood ____ against the wall of each long afternoon

Answer 16

And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

Question 17

And the sun stood like a griddle cooling ___ of each long afternoon

Answer 17

And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

Question 18

Quote the second stanza of the poem

Answer 18

in the slung bucket
and the sun stood
like a griddle cooling
against the wall

Question 19

And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall ____

Answer 19

And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

Question 20

___, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard

Answer 20

So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard

Question 21

So, ___ the bakeboard

Answer 21

So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard

Question 22

So, her hands ___ over the bakeboard

Answer 22

So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard

Question 23

So, her hands scuffled over ___

Answer 23

So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard

Question 24

____ sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

Answer 24

The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

Question 25

The reddening stove ___ against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

Answer 25

The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

Question 26

The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat ____ in a floury apron by the window

Answer 26

The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

Question 27

The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood ___ by the window

Answer 27

The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

Question 28

The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron ____

Answer 28

The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

Question 29

Quote the third stanza of the poem

Answer 29

of each long afternoon. So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard, the reddening stove

Question 30

Quote the fourth stanza of the poem.

Answer 30

sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

Question 31

Quote the first four stanzas of the poem

Answer 31

There was a sunlit absence The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the slung bucket and the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon. So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard, the reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

Question 32

___ she dusts the board with a goose's wing

Answer 32

Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing

Question 33

___ with a goose's wing

Answer 33

Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing

Question 34

Now she dusts the board ____

Answer 34

Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing

Question 35

Now she dusts the board with ___

Answer 35

Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing

Question 36

____, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:

Answer 36

Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:

Question 37

Now sits, ____, with whitened nails and measling shins:

Answer 37

Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:

Question 38

Now sits, broad-lapped, ____ and measling shins:

Answer 38

Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:

Question 39

Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails ____:

Answer 39

Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:

Question 40

Quote the fifth stanza of the poem.

Answer 40

Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails

Question 41

___ is a space again

Answer 41

Here is a space again

Question 42

___ a space again

Answer 42

Here is a space again

Question 43

Here is ___ again

Answer 43

Here is a space again

Question 44

Here is a space ___

Answer 44

Here is a space again

Question 45

Here is ___

Answer 45

Here is a space again

Question 46

____ to the tick of two clocks

Answer 46

The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

Question 47

The scone rising ____

Answer 47

The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

Question 48

The scone ___ to the tick of the two clocks

Answer 48

The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

Question 49

The ___ rising to the tick of the two clocks

Answer 49

The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

Question 50

The scone rising to the ___ of the two clocks

Answer 50

The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

Question 51

The scone rising to the tick of ___

Answer 51

The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

Question 52

Quote the sixth stanza of the poem

Answer 52

and measling shins: here is a space again, the scone rising to the tick of two clocks

Question 53

And here is ___

Answer 53

And here is love

Question 54

___ here is love

Answer 54

And here is love

Question 55

And ___ love

Answer 55

And here is love

Question 56

___ tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

Answer 56

Like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

Question 57

Like a ___ sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

Answer 57

Like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

Question 58

Like a tinsmith's scoop ___ its gleam in the meal bin

Answer 58

Like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

Question 59

Like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past ___ in the meal bin

Answer 59

Like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

Question 60

Like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam ___

Answer 60

Like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

Question 61

Like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the ___

Answer 61

Like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

Question 62

____ tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

Answer 62

Like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

Question 63

Quote the seventh stanza of the poem

Answer 63

And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin

Question 64

Quote the last three stanzas of the poem

Answer 64

Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins: here is a space again, the scone rising to the tick of two clocks And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin

Question 65

Quote the full poem

Answer 65

There was a sunlit absence The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the slung bucket and the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon. So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard, the reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins: here is a space again, the scone rising to the tick of two clocks And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin