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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. What does the fisherman use to fish with in "The Fisherman"?
(a) A net.
(b) A modern fishing pole.
(c) A spear.
(d) An antique fishing rod.

2. What do the bells in "Autumn Returns" mean?
(a) That it is time for church.
(b) That someone has been saved.
(c) That someone has died.
(d) That it is six o'clock.

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

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

5. Who does the poet describe in "The Pueblo"?
(a) The government.
(b) The warriors.
(c) The working man.
(d) The children.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second half of "Past," what does the poet say about people?

2. Where does God in "A Soldier Sleeps" say the soldier is from?

3. In "Death Alone," what does the poet first describe?

4. Who knocks on the door in "Ode to the Tomato"?

5. How does the poet immortalize himself in "Signifying Shadows"?

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