Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Digging? Put your knowledge to
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Q. What does Heaney compare his pen to?
A spade
A potato
A gun
Hard work
Q. When the father of the speaker is working in the flowerbed, what does it remind the speaker of?
How much he loves gardening
His dad digging up potatoes 20 years ago
His grandfather digging up potatoes
His childhood in general
Q. Who else, beside the speaker's father, is good with a spade?
The speaker's grandfather
The speaker
The speaker's mother
The speaker's son
Q. Where did the grandfather cut turf?
America
Toner's bog
Tanner's swamp
At the local disco club
Q. What does the speaker dig with?
A spade
A rake
His hands
His pen