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

2. At the end of "The Builders of Statues," what does the poet consider?
(a) If he can build a statue.
(b) If the statues built themselves.
(c) If the statues will exist after he dies.
(d) If the statues are a hallucination.

3. In "Nocturnal Collection," what does the poet say he conquered?
(a) Love.
(b) Fear.
(c) Women.
(d) Dreams.

4. In the last ten lines of "Death Alone," what object does the poet connect to death?
(a) A bed.
(b) A broom.
(c) A pot.
(d) A sink.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poet say about mistakes in "Ode to the Book"?

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

5. In "Death Alone," what does the poet first describe?

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