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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Loneliness | Memory | The Long Day Called Thursday.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the poet make funeral arrangements in "And How Long?"
(a) His friend died.
(b) He thinks he is dying.
(c) He wants to control his funeral arrangement.
(d) His doctor told him to.

2. What does the poet say about forever in "And How Long?"
(a) What it means to say forever.
(b) Who knows what forever is.
(c) How long forever lasts.
(d) If he'll see forever.

3. In the beginning of "The Great Ocean," what does the poet ask of Ocean?
(a) Life.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Power.
(d) Love.

4. What does the poet say to the marine night in "The Marine Night"?
(a) That he is sorry.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That he wants to become it.
(d) That he loves it.

5. In "Leaning into the Afternoons," what does the poet cast sad nets toward?
(a) A pile of money.
(b) An open heart.
(c) A city.
(d) A pair of eyes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Tocopilla located in "The Brutalized Birds"?

3. In lines 4-8 of "Tang," who does the poet describe?

4. What does the poet see in the ocean in "Oceanic South"?

5. At the end of "Pact (Sonata)," what does the poet ask?

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