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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Death Alone | Barcarole | Oceanic South | Walking Around.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the "black days" in "Bleak System"?
(a) Being in love.
(b) A time of war.
(c) When the poet was ill.
(d) Death.

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

3. At the end of "Dream Horses," what does the poet wish for?
(a) To stop having dreams.
(b) To trade dreams with someone else.
(c) To live dreams.
(d) To record his dreams.

4. In "Tonight I can Write," what does the poet say he could write?
(a) The truth.
(b) Sad lines.
(c) A novel.
(d) Nothing.

5. In lines 4-8 of "Tang," who does the poet describe?
(a) Musicians.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Politicians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are riders described in "Dream Horses"?

3. In "Unity," what does the poet say humans share a unity with?

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

5. In "Body of a Woman," what does the poet say he will persist in?

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