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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Micucu's auntie do in "The Burglar of Babylon"?
(a) Withholds money.
(b) Takes him into her home.
(c) Gives him money.
(d) Throws him out of her home.

2. To what does Bishop devote three poems to in North and South?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Evening.
(c) Weekends.
(d) Morning.

3. What is Bishop's attitude toward the title character and his family in "Manuelzinho"?
(a) Caring.
(b) Distasteful.
(c) Cautious.
(d) Pitying.

4. What is a running theme in many of the poems in Cold Spring?
(a) Spring.
(b) Weather.
(c) The sea.
(d) Swimming.

5. What is the visitor's mood in "House Guest"?
(a) Pleasant.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Comical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is depicted in "Manuelzinho"?

2. What does the tone of "Letter to N.Y." reveal about the friendship portrayed?

3. What is the poet surprised to learn?

4. What is the symbolic meaning of "Pleasure Seas"?

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

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