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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the poet surprised to learn?
(a) That Brazil does not have a flag.
(b) That Brazil has a flag.
(c) That the people of Brazil are well-off.
(d) That the people of Brazil are poor.

2. What does the viewer hear in "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress"?
(a) A brass band playing.
(b) Nothing.
(c) An orchestra playing.
(d) A protest.

3. To what does the poet compare the long, relentless rain in "Questions of Travel"?
(a) A preacher's sermon.
(b) A politician's speech.
(c) A politician's nose.
(d) A preacher's nose.

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

5. When were the poems in North and South collected?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1959.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the family react to the poet in "Manuelzinho"?

2. What does "Jeronimo's House" reflect about the poet?

3. How does Bishop compare an iceberg to a ship in North and South?

4. What is the tone of the Four Poems?

5. What has Bishop arranged in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?

(see the answer key)

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