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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do several of the poems in North and South pay homage?
(a) Cities.
(b) Music.
(c) Water.
(d) Trees.

2. What color are the Brazilian warehouses?
(a) Pink of blue.
(b) Black or white.
(c) Black or gray.
(d) White or gray.

3. What does the title character in "Manuelzinho" wear that is oddly painted?
(a) A shirt.
(b) A pair of overalls.
(c) A hat.
(d) A belt.

4. In what year does Questions of Travel begin?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1942.

5. What are two sounds the poet appreciates in "Questions of Travel"?
(a) Wind and roosters.
(b) Wooden clogs and a bird's song.
(c) Rain and frogs.
(d) Tap shoes and a cricket's chirp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bishop compare the winter wind to in "The Colder the Air"?

2. Why is the auntie surprised by the burglar's actions in "The Burglar of Babylon"?

3. What is the tone of the Four Poems?

4. In "Cape Breton," what types of animals are staring out to sea?

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

(see the answer key)

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