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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10: The Rope, Vocations, The Thyrsus & Get Yourself Drunk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Beautiful Dorothy", what are the other people doing while Dorothy goes to the shore?
(a) Working.
(b) Eating lunch.
(c) Sailing boats.
(d) Taking naps.

2. In "The Rope", when are illusion and reality described as being the same?
(a) When they are a mother's love.
(b) When they are found in nature.
(c) Never.
(d) When they belong to a child.

3. What does the poet say the first man died of "Evening Twilight"?
(a) Madness.
(b) Illness.
(c) Old age.
(d) Fear.

4. How does the narrator of "The Clock" describe Feline?
(a) Difficult.
(b) Hairy.
(c) Pompous.
(d) Nervous.

5. In "The Double Room", what wakes the narrator from his dream?
(a) A clap of thunder.
(b) A knock.
(c) A woman yelling.
(d) The rising sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is "The Foreigner" organized?

2. Why does the narrator feel sympathy for the man dressed as a jester in "The Fool and Venus"?

3. Why does the artist in "The Artist's Confiteor" decide he cannot describe nature?

4. In "The Toy of the Poor", what separates the rich child from the poor?

5. In "A Hemisphere in Her Hair", what color hair does the poet focus on?

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