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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. What or whom does the narrator of "The Clock" name Feline?
(a) A woman.
(b) A dog.
(c) A Chinese neighbor.
(d) A cat.

2. How is "The Foreigner" organized?
(a) As a series of questions.
(b) In alphabetical order.
(c) In chronological order.
(d) As a letter.

3. In "A Hemisphere in Her Hair", where does the poet see "the languor of long hours"?
(a) On her bed.
(b) In a bathtub.
(c) On a divan.
(d) In a park.

4. In "Crowds", what is the poet's gift?
(a) To be one and all.
(b) To be a crowd.
(c) To be an observer.
(d) To be educated.

5. How does the narrator of "The Fool and Venus" describe the day?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Wonderful.
(d) Horrible.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the tradesman react to his child's gift in "The Fairies' Gifts"?

2. Why does the narrator follow the woman around all day in "The Widows"?

3. How is the scent of the hair in "A Hemisphere in Her Hair" described?

4. In "At One in the Morning", what allows the narrator to relax?

5. What does the poet say the first man died of "Evening Twilight"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "A Hemisphere in Her Hair", what can be seen in black hair?

2. What does the poet say about the Chinese in "The Clock"?

3. In "The Artist's Confiteor", why is the artist upset?

4. What makes the narrator change his mind about the setting in "Cake"?

5. What does the narrator see in the jester's eyes in "The Fool and Venus"?

6. What are the voices discussing in "The Foreigner"?

7. What does Baudelaire say about the night in "Evening Twilight"?

8. In "To Each His Chimera", what do the chimeras make the narrator realize?

9. In "The Double Room", what does the narrator dream about?

10. How does the narrator of "The Old Mountebank" feel about the mountebank?

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