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n Housman’s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young,” which lines suggest that glory does not last long?

1. “The time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the marketplace;”
2. “And early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose.”
3. “Eyes the shady night has shut / Cannot see the record cut.”

What is Kipling trying remind the people of the British Empire in “Recessional”?

1. The British Empire has made the world a safer place.
2. The British Empire cannot be stopped.
3. The British Empire will not last forever.

Thomas Hardy had a ____ outlook on life.

a. pessimistic b. optimistic
c. exaggerated