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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through XCI - C.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Neruda NOT say "should all sleep" in Sonnet LXXXI?
(a) Love.
(b) Anger.
(c) Work.
(d) Pain.

2. What type of person does Neruda NOT describe as trying to "tie time down?"
(a) Transients.
(b) Businessmen.
(c) Bureaucrats.
(d) Teachers.

3. In Sonnet LXI, what does Neruda describe as having a "tail of pain" and a "train of static thorns?"
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) Sleep.
(d) His critics.

4. In Sonnet XXXII, what starts the morning with "its truths scrambled" and that "drifts like a poor little boat?"
(a) The house.
(b) The city.
(c) The sun.
(d) The sea.

5. In Sonnet LIV, what two things does Neruda describe as being "like two wings?"
(a) Lovers' passion and love.
(b) Matilde's hands.
(c) Matilde's feet.
(d) The mind and love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Sonnet XV, Neruda says that Matilde is as firm as what two items?

2. What happens to Neruda in Sonnet XC that he says makes him feel "the cold up close?"

3. In Sonnet XXI, what season does Neruda say he does not want to go "one moment more without?"

4. In Sonnet IX, Neruda contrasts the love between himself and Matilde with what natural formation?

5. In Sonnet LXIX, what does Neruda say "nothingness" is?

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