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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 stops.
(c) The tide does not come in.
(d) The rain starts.

2. What is the sea awaiting in 'From "The Life and Death of a Severino"'?
(a) A naming.
(b) The birth of a baby.
(c) A religious sect.
(d) The burial of a man.

3. In what years were the poems in Uncollected Poems composed?
(a) 1927-1979.
(b) 1961-1971.
(c) 1927-1971.
(d) 1927-1937.

4. How does the man treat the woman in "Brazilian Tragedy"?
(a) He buys her expensive gifts.
(b) He provides health care and clothing.
(c) He beats her.
(d) He verbally abuses her.

5. How does the crab in "Strayed Crab" view himself?
(a) Beautiful and powerless.
(b) Ugly and powerless.
(c) Beautiful and powerful.
(d) Ugly and powerful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who marches the mouse to his execution in "The Hanging of the Mouse"?

2. What does "Brazilian Tragedy" depict?

3. Where did the poem "Sunday at Key West" originally appear?

4. In "Lullaby for the Cat," what does the cat not want to do?

5. What does the devil remind the living in "Patience of an Angel"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the moral Bishop puts forth in "Thank-You Note"?

2. Which stanza in section XIV of "From 'The Death and Life of a Severino'" seems different from the others?

3. How is the character in "The Giant Snail" an exaggerated human figure?

4. Why does the poet begins the section called Geography III with a geography lesson that throws a series of unanswered questions at the reader?

5. What do the hats come to symbolize in "Exchanging Hats"?

6. Why did Bishop write "The Mountain" in the first person?

7. What is the tone of "Lines Written in the Fannie Farmer Cookbook"?

8. What is the effect on the reader of the surprise ending in Vinicius de Moraes' "Sonnet of Intimacy"?

9. In Carlos Drummond de Andrade's "Infancy," why does the author refer to Robinson Crusoe as "the long story that never comes to an end"?

10. How is the character in "The Giant Toad" an exaggerated human figure?

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