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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the "black days" in "Bleak System"?
(a) A time of war.
(b) When the poet was ill.
(c) Being in love.
(d) Death.

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

3. In "Brussels," what does the poet say moves too quickly?
(a) Technology.
(b) His faith.
(c) His life.
(d) Trains.

4. What is ruined at the end of "There's No Forgetting"?
(a) A field.
(b) A river.
(c) A tree.
(d) A mountain.

5. When does harvest occur in "Being Born in the Woods"?
(a) August.
(b) October.
(c) July.
(d) September.

6. What is Rapa Nui in "Rapa Nui"?
(a) A book.
(b) A group of natives.
(c) An island.
(d) A major city.

7. In "Lone Gentleman," what does the poet call the people around him?
(a) Oysters.
(b) Lost souls.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Cows.

8. What does the poet compare his lover to in "I Have Gone Marking"?
(a) A car.
(b) A bird.
(c) A map.
(d) A book.

9. How are riders described in "Dream Horses"?
(a) As being a burden.
(b) As being leaders.
(c) As being in trouble.
(d) As being women.

10. In "Tonight I can Write," what does the poet say he could write?
(a) A novel.
(b) Sad lines.
(c) The truth.
(d) Nothing.

11. In "Being Born in the Woods," what is born again?
(a) A bird.
(b) The rain.
(c) The poet.
(d) A seed.

12. How does the poet feel about the prostitute in "The Night of the Soldier"?
(a) That she is caring.
(b) That she is destructuve.
(c) That she needs saving.
(d) That she is perfection.

13. In "The Wave," what does the poet describe as being a flower?
(a) A fish.
(b) A man in a boat.
(c) The entire ocean.
(d) The wave.

14. In "Nocturnal Collection," what does the poet say he conquered?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Women.
(c) Love.
(d) Fear.

15. In "The Way into Wood," what does the poet say about apologies?
(a) That they should come only from men.
(b) That they are always late.
(c) That they mean nothing.
(d) That they hurt more than help.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Battle of the Jarama River," who are the river's people?

2. In the beginning of "Ode with a Lament," what does the poet say the woman is ready for?

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

4. In "Leaning into the Afternoons," what does the poet cast sad nets toward?

5. What does the chief in "Education of the Chieftain" make himself?

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