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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does the tone have on the Four Poems?
(a) It makes the reader less sympathetic to the plight of the people portrayed in them.
(b) It makes the reader more sympathetic to the plight of the people portrayed in them.
(c) It makes them more universal.
(d) It makes them specific to the two people portrayed in them.

2. What does "For C.W.B." depict?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Music.
(c) Food.
(d) Nature.

3. "Questions of Travel" is in what format?
(a) A debate.
(b) A list of meandering questions.
(c) An answer to a single question.
(d) Question and answer.

4. What does the poet first recognize in "In the Waiting Room"?
(a) That she wants to travel.
(b) That she is afraid of dentists.
(c) That she is a strong reader.
(d) That she will someday have a mature female body.

5. What is described in "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress"?
(a) Architecture.
(b) The essence of Washington, D.C.
(c) The poet's politics.
(d) A view from a rooftop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the poet's initial reactions to Brazil?

2. To what does the poet compare love in the third part of Three Valentines?

3. What geographical locations do the poems in North and South portray?

4. How does Bishop look at life in the poems in Uncollected Work and Geography III?

5. What does the man in "Songs for a Colored Singer do?

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