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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "In Spite of Wrath," what is built after the holocaust?
(a) Towers.
(b) Bridges.
(c) Statues.
(d) Universities.

2. In "The Way Spain Was," what does the poet say has affected Spain?
(a) A controlling leader.
(b) A false god.
(c) A lapse in art.
(d) An attack from the outside.

3. What flows like a tide in "I'm Explaining a Few Things"?
(a) The rivers in France.
(b) His sould.
(c) Warring soldiers.
(d) The blood of Spain.

4. At the end of "The Builders of Statues," what does the poet consider?
(a) If the statues are a hallucination.
(b) If the statues built themselves.
(c) If the statues will exist after he dies.
(d) If he can build a statue.

5. What color is evoked in the beginning of "Serenade"?
(a) White.
(b) Purple.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Weak with the Dawn" question?

2. Why are the oxen red in "Bleak System"?

3. What does "Widower's Tango" resemble?

4. In "The Way into Wood," what does the poet say about apologies?

5. In "Alliance (Sonata)," what time of day is it?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of "The Heights of Macchu Picchu," what does the poet see?

2. What does the Great Plumed God do in "A Soldier Sleeps"?

3. In "The Great Ocean," what does the poet say about nature?

4. What is the funeral like in "Burial in the East"?

5. In "Love, American (1400)," what does the poet say remains?

6. How does the poet end "Antarctic"?

7. Why does the poet talk about fabric in "Weak with the Dawn"?

8. In "Ode with a Lament," what problem does the poet face regarding the woman?

9. How do the last three lines of "I Have Gone Marking" differ from the rest of the poem?

10. What happens to the unmanned ships in "The Ships"?

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