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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Spite of Wrath | Education of the Chieftain | Gold | The Poet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the poet say he wrote "I'm Explaining a Few Things"?
(a) To avoid being fired.
(b) To answer the readers' questions.
(c) To explain his politics.
(d) To restart his writing career.

2. What flows like a tide in "I'm Explaining a Few Things"?
(a) Warring soldiers.
(b) His sould.
(c) The rivers in France.
(d) The blood of Spain.

3. What do all the people in "Lone Gentleman" do in the first lines of the poem?
(a) Take a vacation.
(b) Drink wine.
(c) Fall in love.
(d) Greet each other.

4. In "Death Alone," what does the poet first describe?
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Cemetaries.
(c) Funerals.
(d) Birth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of "Education of the Chieftain," what does the chief become?

2. How does the poet describe the guitar in "Tang"?

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

4. In "Ah Vastness of Pines," what geographic feature does the poet describe in the first four lines?

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

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