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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 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 Bishop's time and place.
(d) Poetry from a different time and place.

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

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

4. Who marches the mouse to his execution in "The Hanging of the Mouse"?
(a) Ants.
(b) Raccoons.
(c) Beetles.
(d) Rats.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the poet located as she composes "The Moose"?

3. What can be deduced from the picture in "Family Portrait"?

4. What is the subject of "Objects & Apparitions"?

5. How does the character distinguish himself from others with the same name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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"?

7. Do you think "Lullaby for the Cat" is simply an innocent rhyme, or do you think it has a deeper meaning?

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

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

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

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