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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 "Death Alone," what does the poet first describe?
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Funerals.
(c) Birth.
(d) Cemetaries.

2. In "Absence of Joaquin," what defines the friend?
(a) His wife.
(b) His money.
(c) His death.
(d) His education.

3. What does the poet consider in "Sonata and Destructions"?
(a) His wealth.
(b) His career.
(c) His birth.
(d) His death.

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

5. What does "Weak with the Dawn" question?
(a) Politics.
(b) Religion.
(c) War.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Leaning into the Afternoons," what does the poet say he resembles when he loves?

2. In "Lone Gentleman," what does the poet call the people around him?

3. What does the poet say is buried in the sand in "Rapa Nui"?

4. In lines 4-8 of "Tang," who does the poet describe?

5. In "Leaning into the Afternoons," what does the poet cast sad nets toward?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the poet describe unity in "Unity"?

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

3. How does the poet connect the woman in "Body of a Woman" to nature?

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

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

6. What does the poet say about rules in "Nocturnal Statutes"?

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

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

9. In "Absence of Joaquin," what does the poet wonder about his own life?

10. What role does the river play in "Battle of the Jarama River"?

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