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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Loneliness | Memory | The Long Day Called Thursday.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of "The Ships," what do the ships carry?
(a) Goods.
(b) Weapons.
(c) People.
(d) Nothing.

2. In "Waltz," what does the poet say to not expect to find?
(a) Him as he used to be.
(b) Love as it is meant to be.
(c) Justice from the government.
(d) War in times of peace.

3. In "Body of a Woman," what does the poet say he will persist in?
(a) The truth.
(b) Her grace.
(c) His faith.
(d) Bodily pain.

4. According to the poet when was gold pure in "Gold"?
(a) When it was in the earth.
(b) When it was discovered by man.
(c) Never.
(d) When it was found on women.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is ruined at the end of "There's No Forgetting"?

3. In "The Ships," what type of ships are described as being the worst?

4. In "Ode to Cesar Vallejo," what does the poet compare Cesar Vallejo's face to?

5. What keeps the figurehead with the men at the end of the poem in "To a Ship's Figurehead"?

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