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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 ask in the beginning of "Autumn Testament"?
(a) To move or to stay.
(b) To live or to fly.
(c) To die or not to die.
(d) To seek help or to try alone.

2. How doe the poet say he discovered the story of "Furious Struggle Between Seamen and an Octopus of Colossal Size"?
(a) He found it in a dream.
(b) He made it up himself.
(c) He ran into the seamen one day.
(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 fine to kill this bird.
(d) That it is his favorite bird.

4. What does the poet like to see the flag do in "The Flag"?
(a) Be folded by the owner.
(b) Whip in the wind.
(c) Hang on his wall.
(d) Fly off the back of a boat.

5. How old is the poet in the beginning of "The Watersong Ends"?
(a) 40.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

6. In "We Are Many," why can't the poet decide who he is?
(a) He lets women decide who he is.
(b) He feels different every day.
(c) He never looks in mirrors.
(d) He has many voices.

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

8. Where is the pearl in "The Long Day Called Thursday"?
(a) The woman's ring.
(b) The poet's tie.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The rocks.

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

10. In the beginning of "Wine," what does the speaker want to do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Pray.
(c) Party.
(d) Sleep.

11. Where is Tocopilla located in "The Brutalized Birds"?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Chile.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Spain.

12. What do the men do with the figurehead when they first find it in "To a Ship's Figurehead"?
(a) They take it home.
(b) The bring it on the boat.
(c) They place it on the sand.
(d) The put it back in front of the boat.

13. In "Tides," what do the waves do to the poet?
(a) Raise his voice.
(b) Relax his soul.
(c) Build his power.
(d) Take him away.

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

15. In "The Unknown One," what does the poet say will happen to common people?
(a) History will forget them.
(b) He will write about them.
(c) The street will devour them.
(d) The waves will wash them away.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Builder," what does the poet say he will build his likeness from?

2. What are the windows on the houses like in "The Pension on the Calle Maruri"?

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

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

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

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