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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bleak System | Sonata and Destructions | The Night of the Soldier | Nocturnal Statutes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the "black days" in "Bleak System"?
(a) Being in love.
(b) Death.
(c) When the poet was ill.
(d) A time of war.

2. Why is it difficult to see in "Thinking, Tangling Shadows"?
(a) Because of closed eyes.
(b) Because of night time.
(c) Because of the crowd.
(d) Because of a fog.

3. In "Unity," what does the poet say humans share a unity with?
(a) Each other.
(b) Music.
(c) Animals.
(d) The world.

4. What color is evoked in the beginning of "Serenade"?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Purple.

5. What does the poet compare his lover to in "I Have Gone Marking"?
(a) A car.
(b) A book.
(c) A map.
(d) A bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Marisol described in "Every Day you Play"?

2. Why are the oxen red in "Bleak System"?

3. In "Body of a Woman," what does the poet say he will persist in?

4. In "Leaning into the Afternoons," what does the poet say he resembles when he loves?

5. At the end of "Dream Horses," what does the poet wish for?

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