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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Sea," what is the essence of the sea?
(a) Life and death.
(b) Fear and love.
(c) Wave and rock.
(d) Fire and cold.

2. How doe the poet say he discovered the story of "Furious Struggle Between Seamen and an Octopus of Colossal Size"?
(a) He made it up himself.
(b) He ran into the seamen one day.
(c) He found it in a dream.
(d) He read it it a journal he found.

3. In "Not Alone the Albatross," what does the poet say about the albatross?
(a) That it isn't the only sacred bird.
(b) That it is the most holy bird.
(c) That it is his favorite bird.
(d) That it is fine to kill this bird.

4. In "Oh Earth, Wait for Me," what does the poet say the earth's pure gift is?
(a) Silence.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Redemption.
(d) Freedom.

5. What warms the poet in "The Pension on the Calle Maruri"?
(a) A sunny day.
(b) Love.
(c) Soup.
(d) Children.

6. In "The Marine Night," what does the poet want to burn with?
(a) Ships.
(b) Pain.
(c) Bonfires.
(d) Candles.

7. In "The Lion," what is wrong with the lion's claws?
(a) They are idle.
(b) They are broken.
(c) They are missing.
(d) They are cursed.

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

9. In "Poet's Obligation," where does the poet say he gathers his poetry?
(a) On sheets of paper.
(b) In boxes.
(c) In a cup.
(d) In his brain.

10. What does the poet say about the sea at the end of "The Sea"?
(a) That death comes to all.
(b) That water heals all.
(c) That it is gone.
(d) That it is movement.

11. In "Memory," why does the poet say he must pay attention to the blades of grass?
(a) Because it is his job to record everything.
(b) Because his wife asked him to.
(c) Because it will be his future home.
(d) Because he was born from the grass.

12. In "Wine," what does the speaker desire to be?
(a) A common man.
(b) A captain.
(c) A fish.
(d) A woman.

13. Why are the men coming to town in "Leviathan"?
(a) To document the local history.
(b) To hunt whales.
(c) To build cities.
(d) To take over the government.

14. In "Ode to Laziness," what is freed from the spider's web?
(a) A fly.
(b) Another spider.
(c) A man.
(d) A bee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poet say people must do to the past in "Past"?

2. At the end of "Fiesta's End," what does the poet declare?

3. What does the poet say to the marine night in "The Marine Night"?

4. What does the poet desire in "Bestiary"?

5. In "Fear," what does the poet complain about?

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