PART A: Which of the following best states a central theme of this poem?
A. Love is a beautiful thing, and something not worth settling for.
B. Sometimes life's worst hardships are preferable to the pain that can be
experienced from love.
C. Ask for what you wish for most in life, and sometimes you shall receive.
D. Loneliness is the worst kind of suffering.
2. PART B: Which phrase from the poem best supports the answer to Part A?
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A. "Give me hunger, pain and want, / Shut me out with shame and failure" (Lines 4-5)
B. "Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! / But leave me a little love" (Lines 7-8)
C. "One little wandering, western star / Thrust out from the changing shores of
shadow" (Lines 14-15)
D. "And wait and know the coming / Of a little love" (Lines 18-19)
3. PART A: What does the word “want” most closely mean as it is used in line 4?
A. Starvation
B. Desire
C. Poverty
D. Glory
4. PART B: Which phrase from stanza 1 provides the best clue to the answer to Part A?
A. “Give me hunger, pain” (Line 4)
B. “shame and failure” (Line 5)
C. “doors of gold and fame” (Line 6)
D. “shabbiest, weariest” (Line 7)