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Part Three  The English Reader Quiz: Part Three  Come on, we
know you aren’t working today. Take a couple minutes and give
your brain a workout. Here are five more questions to stretch
your literary muscles, courtesy of Michael and Diane Ravitch,
authors of The English Reader. Be sure to try part one and two
of the quiz.    1. “The time has come,” the Walrus said,/ “To
talk of many things:/ Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax —/
Of cabbages —- and kings —”     1. Oscar Wilde     2. Robert
Louis Stevenson     3. Edward Lear     4. Lewis Carroll   2. I
grow old…. I grow old… I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers
rolled.     1. WH Auden     2. TS Eliot     3. A.E. Housman
4. Phillip Larkin   3. How can we know the dancer from the
dance?     1. Percy Bysshe Shelley     2. W.B. Yeats     3.
William Blake     4. T.S. Eliot   4. Gather ye rosebuds while ye
may     1. Robert Herrick     2. William Shakespeare     3.
Walter Raleigh     4. Richard Lo