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Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” — Quiz

Question 7 • English Language Arts 12

Read the excerpt from "Digging." The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I’ve no spade to follow men like them. Which idea is typically associated with the word "spade”?

Answer
A
leisure time
B
hard work
C
writing poems
D
city life
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