My New Year’s Resolution for 2021 is to read more poetry. So, this new series of quizzes, will take a poem by a famous poet on their birthday and ask you to fill in the missing words. The poem for this quiz is the first poem in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, The Naming of Cats, by TS Eliot whose birthday is on September 26th.
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The Naming of Cats is a difficult —, It isn’t just one of your holiday games;
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matter
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problem
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You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have — DIFFERENT NAMES.
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THREE
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FIVE
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First of all, there’s the name that the family — daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo, or James,
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use
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say
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Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or — Bailey— All of them sensible everyday names.
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Bill
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Bob
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There are — names if you think they sound sweeter, Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
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fancier
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showier
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Such as —, Admetus, Electra, Demeter— But all of them sensible everyday names,
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Plato
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Pluto
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But I tell you, a cat — a name that’s particular, A name that’s peculiar, and more dignified,
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needs
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wants
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Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or — his pride?
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cherish
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treasure
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Of names of this kind, I can — you a quorum, Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
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give
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tell
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Such as Bombalurina, or else — — Names that never belong to more than one cat.
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Jellylorum
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Mungojerrie
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But above and beyond there’s still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will —;
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guess
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know
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The name that no — research can discover— But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
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human
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learned
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When you notice a cat in — meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
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profound
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deep
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His — is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
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mind
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brain
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His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable — name.
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singular
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curious
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