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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. After recounting a sexual experience in "Furies and Sufferings," what does the poet do?
(a) Curse.
(b) End the poem.
(c) Ask questions.
(d) Start a new story.

2. What question does the poet ask in "Absence of Joaquin"?
(a) What did he take with him?
(b) How did everyone react?
(c) Why do we question anything?
(d) Who will be left behind?

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

4. In the beginning of "The Great Ocean," what does the poet ask of Ocean?
(a) Power.
(b) Life.
(c) Love.
(d) Fruit.

5. What color is evoked in the beginning of "Serenade"?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Purple.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of "The Builders of Statues," what does the poet consider?

2. In the beginning of "Wine," what does the speaker want to do?

3. What does the poet say is buried in the sand in "Rapa Nui"?

4. In "Oceanic South," what does the poet have left?

5. In the last ten lines of "Death Alone," what object does the poet connect to death?

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