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1. 1.

   How long ago was the road shut? Why would you not know it was there once?

2. 2.

   How did the speaker describe the late summer evening?

3. 3.

   Why did the speaker say the badgers roll 'at ease'?

4. 4.

   What two things would you hear if you entered the woods on a late summer evening?

5. 5.

   Is there an element of the ghostly in the poem? Pick out the lines that establish this and explain how.

6. 6.

   They fear not men in the woods,
   because they see so few

   1. Who are 'they'?
   2. Why does 'they' see so few men in the woods?
   3. Why will 'they' fear men if 'they' see them?