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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Marine Night | Wine | Ode to a Fallen Chestnut | Ode to the Book.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Way Spain Was," what does the poet say has affected Spain?
(a) A controlling leader.
(b) A false god.
(c) A lapse in art.
(d) An attack from the outside.

2. What does the poet compare dreaming to in "Nocturnal Collection"?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) Birth.

3. In "Oceanic South," what does the poet have left?
(a) His friends.
(b) His writing.
(c) His love.
(d) His imagination.

4. In "Battle of the Jarama River," who are the river's people?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The Russians.
(c) The French.
(d) The English.

5. In "Death Alone," what does the poet first describe?
(a) Funerals.
(b) Birth.
(c) Cemetaries.
(d) Hospitals.

Short Answer Questions

1. In stanza 4 of "Battle of the Jarama River," what is said about the river?

2. What emotion is detailed in the beginning of "Ars Poetica"?

3. In "Absence of Joaquin," what defines the friend?

4. What makes the school of fish unique in "The Fish and the Drowned Man"?

5. After recounting a sexual experience in "Furies and Sufferings," what does the poet do?

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