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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. What is the subject of "My Last Poem"?
(a) What Bishop hopes her final poem will be like.
(b) What Bandeira hopes his final poem will be like.
(c) The most recent poem Bandeira penned.
(d) Bishop's most recent poem, which is about Bandeira.

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

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

4. Where is the poet located as she composes "The Moose"?
(a) A bus in Alaska.
(b) A bus in Canada.
(c) A train in Alaska.
(d) A train in Canada.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the sea awaiting in 'From "The Life and Death of a Severino"'?

2. For what was Fannie Farmer, as portrayed in "Lines Written in the Fannie Farmer Cookbook," most famous?

3. What is Severino's problem in "From 'The Life and Death of a Severino"?

4. To whom is "Sunday at Key West" dedicated?

5. Why does the toad in "Giant Toad" pity himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the character in "The Strayed Crab" an exaggerated human figure?

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

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

4. Why is Bandeira so concerned about the specifics of his last poem in "My Last Poem"?

5. What was the political situation that inspired "The Hanging of the Mouse"?

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

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

8. What do all the metaphorical places in "For C.W.B." have in common?

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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