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Make It New!: Early Modernism — Test

Question 7 • English III

Read the excerpt from "Rhapsody on a Windy Night." Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of memory And all its clear relations, Its divisions and precisions, Every street lamp that I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum, And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium. Which phrase from the excerpt best indicates that the narrator is lost in thought?

Answer
A
Along the reaches of the street
B
Held in a lunar synthesis
C
Every street lamp that I pass
D
Midnight shakes the memory
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