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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

by Thomas Gray

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Overview Quiz

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  1. What time of day is it when the poem begins?

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  2. What animal "complains" in the third stanza?

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  3. What sounds does the speaker hear?

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  4. The speaker's tone in the second stanza is:

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  5. What has been disrupted in the fourth stanza?

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