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The people I love the best

jump into work head first

without dallying in the shallows

and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.

5 They seem to become natives of that element,

the black sleek heads of seals

bouncing like half-submerged balls.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,

who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,

10 who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,

who do what has to be done, again and again.

I want to be with people who submerge

in the task, who go into the fields to harvest

and work in a row and pass the bags along,

15 who are not parlor generals and field deserters

but move in a common rhythm

when the food must come in or the fire be put out.

The work of the world is common as mud.

Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.

20 But the thing worth doing well done

has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

Greek amphoras for wine or oil,

Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums

but you know they were made to be used.

25 The pitcher cries for water to carry

and a person for work that is real.

11. The poem as a whole is best understood as a

(A) eulogy for a lost age of real work

(B) plea for work to be less burdensome

(C) vindication of the humanity of workers

(D) celebration of earnest work and workers

(E) defense of unusual types of work and workers

12. In context, “dallying in the shallows” (line 3) most nearly means

(A) misunderstanding an assignment

(B) waiting for worthwhile work

(C) lingering over satisfying labor

(D) pretending to complete a job

(E) hesitating to perform a task

13. In line 5, “that element” refers to both

(A) water and work

(B) love and labor

(C) mud and muck

(D) skill and strength

(E) wind and tides

14. Which best describes the difference in the way the “people” (lines 1 and 8) are

characterized in stanza one versus stanza two?

(A) Rapid movement versus wearied stasis

(B) Supple grace versus undisciplined power

(C) Eager activity versus plodding exertion

(D) Measured patience versus hopeless resignation

(E) Innate enthusiasm versus thoughtful neutrality

15. In the poem, the term “parlor generals” (line 15) most probably refers to

individuals who

(A) behave with unrelenting valor on the battlefield

(B) view their work obligations as enforced military service

(C) have retired from illustrious careers, only to be forgotten

(D) have performed deeds because they sought public praise

(E) hold forth as experts on work they have never accomplished

16. The word “submerge” (line 12) most clearly echoes which earlier line from

the poem?

(A) Line 2 (“jump . . . first”)

(B) Line 6 (“the black . . . seals”)

(C) Line 8 (“I love . . . cart”)

(D) Line 9 (“who pull . . . patience”)

(E) Line 10 (“who strain . . . forward”)

17. One effect of the shift in the speaker’s focus in the third stanza is to

(A) introduce the idea that dedication to a task is a quality valued by most people

(B) imply that people are obligated to help others whenever they can

(C) argue that it is better to be a follower than a leader

(D) emphasize the value that the speaker puts on the act of collaboration

(E) lament the speaker’s own tendency toward thought instead of action

18. In lines 20–21, the speaker suggests which of the following about work?

(A) It can have aesthetic value.

(B) It may bind people together.

(C) Its benefits can be elusive.

(D) It is rarely well done.

(E) It should express the workers’ feelings.

19. The speaker mentions “wine or oil” (line 22) and “corn” (line 23) to highlight the

(A) misguided values of many museums

(B) useful commodities supplied by work

(C) functional nature of some venerated objects

(D) enigmatic purpose of certain historical artifacts

(E) artistry implicit in mundane items