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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bleak System | Sonata and Destructions | The Night of the Soldier | Nocturnal Statutes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poet relate the woman's body to in "Body of a Woman"?
(a) The heavens.
(b) Scientific discovery.
(c) The earth.
(d) Literature.

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

3. In "Leaning into the Afternoons," what does the poet cast sad nets toward?
(a) A city.
(b) An open heart.
(c) A pile of money.
(d) A pair of eyes.

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

5. What does the creature play with in "Every Day you Play"?
(a) Light.
(b) Humans.
(c) The moon.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 4-8 of "Tang," who does the poet describe?

2. What does the poet compare his lover to in "I Have Gone Marking"?

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

4. How does the poet feel about the prostitute in "The Night of the Soldier"?

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

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