Which of Heaney's bog poems contains the line 'Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible'?
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Correct answer: D. 'Strange Fruit'
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'Strange Fruit' (North, 1975), on a beheaded Iron Age girl; its title recalls Billie Holiday's song about lynching.
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