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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. How does the poet describe the guitar in "Tang"?
(a) Empty but full.
(b) Broken but valuable.
(c) Loud but weak.
(d) Silent but powerful.

2. How are riders described in "Dream Horses"?
(a) As being leaders.
(b) As being women.
(c) As being in trouble.
(d) As being a burden.

3. Why is it difficult to see in "Thinking, Tangling Shadows"?
(a) Because of a fog.
(b) Because of the crowd.
(c) Because of closed eyes.
(d) Because of night time.

4. In "Ah Vastness of Pines," what geographic feature does the poet describe in the first four lines?
(a) A plain.
(b) A mountain range.
(c) A river.
(d) An ocean.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of "Tonight I can Write," how does the poet say he feels?

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

3. In "Tonight I can Write," what does the poet say he could write?

4. In "Alliance (Sonata)," what time of day is it?

5. In "Leaning into the Afternoons," what does the poet say he resembles when he loves?

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