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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 "Fear," what does the poet complain about?
(a) People telling him what to do.
(b) Never finding love.
(c) His lack of money.
(d) Being afraid of his future.

2. In "The Builder," what does the poet say he will build his likeness from?
(a) Salt.
(b) Wood.
(c) Rock.
(d) Water.

3. How does the poet immortalize himself in "Signifying Shadows"?
(a) He says he can't immortalize himself.
(b) By taking pictures of himself.
(c) Through writing.
(d) Through prayer.

4. What question does the poet ask in "Absence of Joaquin"?
(a) Why do we question anything?
(b) What did he take with him?
(c) How did everyone react?
(d) Who will be left behind?

5. How does the poet describe the dawn in "The Night in Isla Negra"?
(a) Lengthy.
(b) Bloodstained.
(c) Freeing.
(d) Ripped apart.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Ode to Laziness," what is freed from the spider's web?

2. What flows like a tide in "I'm Explaining a Few Things"?

3. What warms the poet in "The Pension on the Calle Maruri"?

4. In "In Spite of Wrath," what is built after the holocaust?

5. In "Poetry," how does the poet say poetry changed him?

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