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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poet say people must do to the past in "Past"?
(a) Relive it.
(b) Learn from it.
(c) Honor it.
(d) Get rid of it.

2. What are the windows on the houses like in "The Pension on the Calle Maruri"?
(a) Broken.
(b) Blank.
(c) Lighted brightly.
(d) Full of children's faces.

3. In "Ode to a Beautiful Nude," what resides in the nude's eyes?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Countries.
(d) Beasts.

4. In "The Portrait in the Rock," what do the police do to the poet's friend?
(a) They hire him.
(b) The rescue him.
(c) They beat him.
(d) They arrest him.

5. Where does the poet look for birds in "Birdwatching Ode"?
(a) The desert.
(b) The shore.
(c) The park.
(d) The forest.

6. What color is the flag in "The Flag"?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

7. Why do the clothes in "Ode to Clothes" wait?
(a) To be useful.
(b) To turn into humans.
(c) To be taken off.
(d) To be thrown away.

8. In "Memory," what does the poet ask the reader to do?
(a) Ignore him.
(b) Believe him.
(c) Forget him.
(d) Pity him.

9. Who does the poet address in "Poet's Obligation"?
(a) People in jail.
(b) People not listening to the sea.
(c) Agents of God.
(d) Women at home with their children.

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

11. Who knocks on the door in "Ode to the Tomato"?
(a) Parsley.
(b) The poet.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) A chicken.

12. What is listed in "The Names"?
(a) Names of the poet's friends.
(b) Names of women the poet has loved.
(c) Names the poet has given himself.
(d) Names of cities.

13. In "The Builder," where does the poet travel to?
(a) The mountains.
(b) Europe.
(c) The coast.
(d) The United States.

14. What does the poet say about his friend's face in the rock in "The Portrait in the Rock"?
(a) That it is too permanent.
(b) That it resembles his own youth.
(c) That it is cracked.
(d) That it is his own country.

15. In "Ode to the Storm," what are the storm's eyes like?
(a) Hot rocks.
(b) Empty holes.
(c) Rough waves.
(d) Cold fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Ode to a Watch at Night," what does the watch sound like?

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

3. In "Birdwatching Ode," what does the poet tell the birds to stay away from?

4. What is the house in "House"?

5. At the end of "Loneliness," what does Pablo Neruda say about himself?

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