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

2. In "Leaning into the Afternoons," what does the poet cast sad nets toward?
(a) A city.
(b) A pair of eyes.
(c) An open heart.
(d) A pile of money.

3. What leads to Magellan's end in "The Magellan Heart"?
(a) A woman.
(b) His own discoveries.
(c) An angry group of natives.
(d) A mysterious illness.

4. In "Love, America (1400)," what does the poet say America has no word for?
(a) Thunder.
(b) War.
(c) Pain.
(d) Spain.

5. In "Barcarole," what is the red arrow?
(a) A tongue.
(b) A sword.
(c) Hateful talk.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do all the people in "Lone Gentleman" do in the first lines of the poem?

2. Why does the poet say he wrote "I'm Explaining a Few Things"?

3. In "The Ships," what type of ships are described as being the worst?

4. In "The Way Spain Was," what does the poet say has affected Spain?

5. What are the "black days" in "Bleak System"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the poet use the image of a seed in "Being Born in the Woods"?

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

4. How does the poet end "Antarctic"?

5. How does the poet describe communism in "Bleak System"?

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

7. What is unique about the river in "Death Alone"?

8. In "Serenade," how is night described?

9. In "The Way into Wood," how does Pablo Neruda describe nature?

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

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