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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the title character in "For C.W.B."
(a) Catherine Wentworth Barrett.
(b) Charles Watson Barrett.
(c) Clayton Wadsworth Barrett.
(d) Unidentified.

2. What happens to the man in "Brazilian Tragedy"?
(a) He gets married.
(b) He gets a divorce.
(c) He leaves the woman.
(d) He has a breakdown.

3. Who cries for the mouse in "The Hanging of the Mouse"?
(a) The praying mantis.
(b) The cat.
(c) The bird.
(d) The mouse's wife.

4. What literary device does the poet employ in "The Mountain"?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Personification.

5. What is one question the poet asks in "Questions of Travel"?
(a) Whether travel can ruin one's sense of imagination.
(b) Whether it is better to travel or just to use one's imagination.
(c) Whether people who have a good imagination don't need to travel.
(d) Whether people have to travel because they have no imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the poems in North and South collected?

2. Why does the snail in "Giant Snail" pity himself?

3. What memory does the toad in "Giant Toad" recall?

4. How does the family react to the poet in "Manuelzinho"?

5. What does the viewer see in "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress?

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