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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 can be deduced from the picture in "Family Portrait"?
(a) How the people felt about the furniture.
(b) Only how the furniture was arranged.
(c) How the people felt about each other.
(d) Each person's true character.

2. What literary device does the poet employ in "The Mountain"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Allusion.

3. How does the character distinguish himself from others with the same name?
(a) He changes his name.
(b) He associates his name with his character traits.
(c) He uses a nickname.
(d) He associates his name with specific facts about his life.

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

5. Who cries for the mouse in "The Hanging of the Mouse"?
(a) The bird.
(b) The praying mantis.
(c) The mouse's wife.
(d) The cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Brazilian Tragedy" depict?

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

3. Which of these poems is fourteen lines long?

4. What does the poet explore in "For C.W.B."?

5. In "Banks," to what does the poet compare his complaining?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the poet mean by the line "We are too innocent and wise" in "The Wave"?

5. How are the "Four Sambas" by Anonymous different from the rest of the poems in the book?

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

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

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

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

10. What is the meaning of the simple, repeated incident in Drummond de Andrade's "In the Middle of the Road"?

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