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20 Cards in this Set
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Who is swimming behind the shower of roots and mould? |
The labourers. |
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How is the flotilla of gulls described? |
Gay. |
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What colour are the potatoes described as? |
Flint-white and purple. |
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How many wicket huts had 'beaks of famine snipping at guts'? |
A million. |
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What did pits turn pus into? |
Filthy moulds. |
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What does the poet call the potatoes in line 30? |
Live skulls, blind-eyed, balanced on. |
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How many potatoes rotted? |
Millions. |
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How is the hope described in the 10th stanza? |
Like a rotten marrow. |
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What is the missing word?:
"Libations of cold _____, scatter crumbs." |
Tea. |
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What did the 'stinking potatoes' do to the land? |
They fouled the land. |
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What was there from the hedge to the headland? |
A higgledy line. |
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How is stooping through the turf described? |
Recurs mindlessly as autumn. |
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What are the first two lines of the poem? |
A mechanical digger wrecks the drill, Spins up a dark shower of roots and mould. |
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What is the missing word?:
Good smells ______ from crumbled earth? |
Exude. |
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What 'wrecks the drill' in line 1? |
A mechanical digger. |
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What is served for lunch in bright canfuls? |
Brown bread and tea. |
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How long did the new potato lie in the long clay pit? |
Three days. |
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What year did the famine start? |
'Forty-five.' |
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What are the fingers described as? |
Dead in the cold. |
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What is the missing word?:
"Libation of cold tea, ______ crumbs." |
Scatter |
