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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the season that Neruda describes in Sonnet LXXXV?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Winter.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

2. What are Neruda and Matilde looking for in Sonnet LXXI?
(a) Refreshment after their long travels.
(b) A lost child.
(c) A place to live in peace.
(d) A way to renew their fading love.

3. What is the painter in Sonnet LXXVI painting?
(a) The jungle.
(b) Matilde.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Isla Negra.

4. Where is the pain Neruda experiences in Sonnet LXV?
(a) In his brain.
(b) In his spirit.
(c) In his leg.
(d) Between his ribs.

5. What opposites does Neruda NOT consider in Sonnet LXVI?
(a) Cold and fire.
(b) Light and darkness.
(c) Love and not love.
(d) Hate and not hate.

6. In Sonnet LXX, what wounds Neruda?
(a) His unrequited love.
(b) Matilde's eyes.
(c) His loneliness.
(d) The silence of the jungle.

7. In Sonnet LVII, who is defeated by the love between Matilde and Neruda's love?
(a) Neruda's literary critics.
(b) People who gossip about and slander Neruda.
(c) Neruda's romantic rivals.
(d) Neruda's political opponents.

8. In Sonnet LXXXVII, Neruda contemplates the "ceaseless origins" of which human emotion?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Love.

9. What type of person does Neruda NOT describe as trying to "tie time down?"
(a) Teachers.
(b) Businessmen.
(c) Bureaucrats.
(d) Transients.

10. According to Sonnet LIX, what harasses "Poor unlucky poets?"
(a) LIfe and death.
(b) Nature and mankind.
(c) Happiness and sadness.
(d) Order and chaos.

11. According to Sonnet LXII, what is the only thing that Neruda and Matilde want and which is overshadowed by others?
(a) They want their families' approval.
(b) They want their life to be simple.
(c) They want to live alone on Isla Negra.
(d) They only want to love each other.

12. What does Neruda say in Sonnet LVIII "snapped at his honest heels" with "sharp little teeth?"
(a) Poetry.
(b) Literature.
(c) Self-doubt.
(d) Academia.

13. What does Neruda NOT say "should all sleep" in Sonnet LXXXI?
(a) Anger.
(b) Work.
(c) Pain.
(d) Love.

14. In Sonnet XCIX, in what form does Neruda say his heart will exist after he is long dead?
(a) It will exist as steam.
(b) It will exist as rich soil.
(c) It will exist as water.
(d) It will exist as dust.

15. In Sonnet LXXIII, what are the man and woman in Neruda's poem protecting themselves from?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Love.
(c) Hate.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Sonnet LXXXI, what does Neruda urge Matilde to do?

2. What is Neruda looking for in Sonnet LXV?

3. In Sonnet LV, what does Neruda NOT say attacks "the honied contentment" of love?

4. In Sonnet XCII, what does Neruda force himself not to contemplate?

5. In Sonnet LIII, what does Neruda NOT cite as "a man's needs, and a woman's?"

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