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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. In what format are the poems in Rainy Season; Sub Tropics written?
(a) Sonnets.
(b) Prose.
(c) Prose poetry.
(d) Free verse.

2. What does the poet do with items on her desk in "12 O'Clock News"?
(a) She re-arranges them while watching the news.
(b) She writes news stories about them.
(c) She hides them around the room for a child to find.
(d) She writes stories in which they come to life.

3. In "Banks," to what does the poet compare his complaining?
(a) A bassoon.
(b) A drum.
(c) A flute.
(d) A violin.

4. What do the characters in Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics symbolize?
(a) Exaggerated human traits.
(b) Different human reactions to rain.
(c) Effects of different locales on humans.
(d) That most people are lost.

5. What is the sea awaiting in 'From "The Life and Death of a Severino"'?
(a) The birth of a baby.
(b) The burial of a man.
(c) A naming.
(d) A religious sect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the second part of Three Valentines depict?

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

3. What does Bishop remember in "Santarem"?

4. What literary device does "12 O'Clock News" employ?

5. What do the poems in Youth deal with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the location in "Santarem" parallel the Garden of Eden?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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