Instructions: Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.


Read the excerpt and then complete the sentences that follow.

To an Athlete Dying Young

by A. E. Housman (excerpt)


The time you won your town the race

We chaired you through the market-place;

Man and boy stood cheering by,

And home we brought you shoulder-high.


To-day, the road all runners come,

Shoulder-high we bring you home,

And set you at your threshold down,

Townsman of a stiller town.


. . .


Now you will not swell the rout

Of lads that wore their honours out,

Runners whom renown outran

And the name died before the man.


So set, before the echoes fade,

The fleet foot on the sill of shade,

And hold to the low lintel up

The still-defended challenge-cup.


And round that early-laurelled head

Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,

And find unwithered on its curls

The garland briefer than a girl's.


In the poem, the phrase "sill of shade" refers to__________The narrator of this poem is__________


1)

Athe Edge of time

BThe edge of a hill

Cthe loss of life

DA window still

2)

Athe athleteś father

Ba reflective onlooker

Cthe athleteś lover

Da young athlete