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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Marine Night | Wine | Ode to a Fallen Chestnut | Ode to the Book.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion is detailed in the beginning of "Ars Poetica"?
(a) Rage.
(b) Fear.
(c) Love.
(d) Happiness.

2. In "Death Alone," what does the poet first describe?
(a) Funerals.
(b) Birth.
(c) Hospitals.
(d) Cemetaries.

3. In "Wine," what does the speaker desire to be?
(a) A common man.
(b) A woman.
(c) A fish.
(d) A captain.

4. At the end of "Barcarole," who does the poet say won't listen to him?
(a) God.
(b) A snake.
(c) A woman.
(d) A bird.

5. In stanza 4 of "Battle of the Jarama River," what is said about the river?
(a) It knows the truth.
(b) It will never flow again.
(c) It is stained forever.
(d) It cannot be conquered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poet compare dreaming to in "Nocturnal Collection"?

2. What question does the poet ask in "Absence of Joaquin"?

3. In the beginning of "Wine," what does the speaker want to do?

4. Why does the poet say he wrote "I'm Explaining a Few Things"?

5. What color is evoked in the beginning of "Serenade"?

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