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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12: The Favors of the Moon, Which is the Real One?, A Thoroughbred & The Mirror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the poet describe the words "multitude" and "solitude" in "Crowds"?
(a) As being identical.
(b) As being difficult to spell.
(c) As being opposites.
(d) As being painful.

2. In "Beautiful Dorothy", what are the other people doing while Dorothy goes to the shore?
(a) Sailing boats.
(b) Eating lunch.
(c) Taking naps.
(d) Working.

3. In "The Wild Woman and the Little Mistress", what bothers the narrator about the woman?
(a) She whines.
(b) Her clothes are dirty.
(c) She is poor.
(d) Her sister.

4. In "Solitude", what does the journalist ask the poet about sharing?
(a) If he shares his money with the needy.
(b) If solitude protects him from sharing.
(c) If he can define the word.
(d) If he feels the need to share joy.

5. In "The Wild Woman and the Little Mistress", what does the narrator describe as being in an iron cage?
(a) All women.
(b) Himself.
(c) A hairy monster.
(d) Faith and beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Thoroughbred", how does the thoroughbred learn her lessons?

2. In "Beautiful Dorothy", why is Dorothy saving money?

3. Why does the narrator of "The Mirror" question the man looking into a mirror?

4. In "Which is the Real One?", what does the first beautiful woman's casket look like?

5. Why does the first beautiful woman die young in "Which is the Real One?"

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