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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bishop begin the section Geography III?
(a) With a map.
(b) With basic lessons and questions about geography.
(c) With a list of places.
(d) With a poem about a map.

2. What are on the porch in "Sunday at Key West"?
(a) Beach chairs.
(b) Bicycles.
(c) Plants.
(d) Rocking chairs.

3. What does the moose do in "The Moose"?
(a) Causes the train to crash.
(b) Attacks.
(c) Stands in the road, then steps aside.
(d) Causes the bus to crash.

4. In "Banks," to what does the poet compare his complaining?
(a) A violin.
(b) A flute.
(c) A drum.
(d) A bassoon.

5. For what was Fannie Farmer, as portrayed in "Lines Written in the Fannie Farmer Cookbook," most famous?
(a) Recipes related to farming.
(b) Recipes and housekeeping tips.
(c) Gourmet recipes.
(d) A cooking show on the radio.

6. What does the second part of Three Valentines depict?
(a) The poet's desire to leave her lover.
(b) The poet's not understanding how she fell out of love.
(c) The poet's not understanding how she came to fall in love.
(d) The poet's desire to fall in love.

7. Who are the authors of the poems Bishop translated in Translations?
(a) Poets she disliked but respected.
(b) Famous poets she never met.
(c) Poets she mentored.
(d) Her colleagues and mentors.

8. Who wrote "Cemetery of Childhood" and "Elegy for Maria Alves"?
(a) Manuel Bandeira.
(b) Joaquim Cardozo.
(c) Vinicius de Moraes.
(d) Joao Cabral de Melo Neto.

9. What experience does the reader gain from the poems in Translations?
(a) A sense of Bishop's relationship with the poets.
(b) Bishop's view of the poems.
(c) Poetry from Bishop's time and place.
(d) Poetry from a different time and place.

10. To what does the poet compare love in the third part of Three Valentines?
(a) A mother bird.
(b) A sea bird.
(c) A feathered bird.
(d) A baby bird.

11. Why is the character's name so common in 'From "The Life and Death of a Severino'"?
(a) It was the name of a local celebrity.
(b) The village residents are members of the same family.
(c) It was the name of a king.
(d) It was the name of a local hero.

12. Which of these poems is fourteen lines long?
(a) "Lullaby for the Cat."
(b) "Sonnet."
(c) "Sunday at Key West."
(d) "The Mountain."

13. What Bible story is alluded to in "Santarem?"
(a) The Garden of Eden.
(b) Abraham and Isaac.
(c) The birth of Jesus.
(d) David and Goliath.

14. What two things does the poem "Pleasure Seas" compare?
(a) The ocean and a bathtub.
(b) The ocean and a brook.
(c) The ocean and a swimming pool.
(d) The ocean and a river.

15. How does nature celebrate the birth of a baby in "From 'The Life and Death of a Severino'"?
(a) The tide does not go out.
(b) The rain starts.
(c) The rain stops.
(d) The tide does not come in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the poems in Youth deal with?

2. In what years were the poems in Uncollected Poems composed?

3. What do the characters in Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics symbolize?

4. What is the visitor's mood in "House Guest"?

5. What literary device does the poet employ in "The Mountain"?

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