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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 do the poems in Youth deal with?
(a) Nature.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Life cycles.
(d) Adolescence.

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

3. What does the poet explore in "For C.W.B."?
(a) Places they could live.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Activities they could do together.
(d) An impending visit.

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

5. Why does the snail in "Giant Snail" pity himself?
(a) He is large and ugly.
(b) He is large and slow.
(c) He is vulnerable to being eaten.
(d) He is slow and ugly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the title character in "For C.W.B."

2. What does the poet do with items on her desk in "12 O'Clock News"?

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

4. What are the Brothers of the Souls carrying in "From 'The Life and Death of a Severino""?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In what style is Bandeira's poem "Brazilian Tragedy" composed?

2. From what perspective is the story of "The Hanging of the Mouse" told?

3. How does Max Jacobs' "Hell Is Graduated" change in the course of the poem?

4. How does Octavio Paz view the beginning of a new year in "January First"?

5. What do the various animals symbolize in "A Word with You"?

6. What does the porch symbolize in "Sunday at Key West"?

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

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

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

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