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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) Only how the furniture was arranged.
(b) How the people felt about the furniture.
(c) How the people felt about each other.
(d) Each person's true character.

2. What is common of many of the translated poems based in and around Brazil?
(a) There is a strong theme.
(b) The poets are not from Brazil.
(c) They are upbeat.
(d) They deal with nature.

3. Who are the Brothers of the Souls in 'From "The Life and Death of a Severino"'?
(a) A sect that welcomes the newly born.
(b) A sect that buries the poor.
(c) A sect that buries the wealthy.
(d) A sect that handles name changes.

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

5. Where did the poem "Sunday at Key West" originally appear?
(a) In a newspaper.
(b) In a letter to Bishop's landlady.
(c) In an anthology.
(d) In a letter to Marianne Moore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits the poet in "House Guest"?

2. Why is the dog pink in "Pink Dog"?

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

4. Who is the angel in "Patience of an Angel"?

5. Who is the philosopher referenced in "The Wit"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the double meaning of the phrase "family travelling through the flesh" in Drummond de Andrade's "Family Portrait"?

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

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

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

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

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

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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