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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 "Love, America (1400)," what does the poet say America has no word for?
(a) Pain.
(b) War.
(c) Spain.
(d) Thunder.

2. What does the poet ask in the beginning of "Autumn Testament"?
(a) To live or to fly.
(b) To seek help or to try alone.
(c) To move or to stay.
(d) To die or not to die.

3. In the second half of "Past," what does the poet say about people?
(a) How they are influenced by the past.
(b) How they work to remember the past.
(c) How they can't remember the past.
(d) How they love the future more than anything.

4. What keeps the figurehead with the men at the end of the poem in "To a Ship's Figurehead"?
(a) Paintings of her.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) The pieces that broke off of her.
(d) Her history.

5. In "Nocturnal Statutes," what does reality differ from?
(a) Death.
(b) School.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Builder," what does the poet say he will build his likeness from?

2. In "Nocturnal Collection," what does the poet say he conquered?

3. After recounting a sexual experience in "Furies and Sufferings," what does the poet do?

4. Why do the clothes in "Ode to Clothes" wait?

5. In "Being Born in the Woods," what is born again?

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