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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the second half of "Past," what does the poet say about people?
(a) How they can't remember the past.
(b) How they are influenced by the past.
(c) How they work to remember the past.
(d) How they love the future more than anything.

2. What does the storm teach the weak in "Ode to the Storm"?
(a) To sing.
(b) To fear.
(c) To sleep.
(d) To be brave.

3. In "The Fisherman," where is the fisherman attacking fish?
(a) On a river bank.
(b) In the open ocean.
(c) In a rock pool.
(d) Off a small dock.

4. What warms the poet in "The Pension on the Calle Maruri"?
(a) A sunny day.
(b) Soup.
(c) Love.
(d) Children.

5. In "We Are Many," why can't the poet decide who he is?
(a) He feels different every day.
(b) He has many voices.
(c) He lets women decide who he is.
(d) He never looks in mirrors.

6. Where does the poet look for birds in "Birdwatching Ode"?
(a) The park.
(b) The forest.
(c) The desert.
(d) The shore.

7. In "Ode to a Watch at Night," what does the watch sound like?
(a) A crying baby.
(b) A dog barking.
(c) An ocean wave.
(d) A beating heart.

8. In "The Watersong Ends," what does the poet say stained the rice fields with blood?
(a) Communism.
(b) Americans.
(c) British.
(d) Capitalism.

9. What does the watch cut down in "Ode to a Watch at Night"?
(a) A tree.
(b) A rough grassland.
(c) An old house.
(d) A building.

10. In "The Portrait in the Rock," what do the police do to the poet's friend?
(a) The rescue him.
(b) They hire him.
(c) They beat him.
(d) They arrest him.

11. In "Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks," what do the drunks do to the mermaid?
(a) Help her find a seat.
(b) Put her back in the water.
(c) Laugh at her.
(d) Spit at her.

12. How many lines long is "Ocean"?
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eight.
(d) Fifteen.

13. What is the race in "Lazybones"?
(a) A race to build the tallest building.
(b) A race to the moon.
(c) A race to cure cancer.
(d) A race to live the longest.

14. How doe the poet say he discovered the story of "Furious Struggle Between Seamen and an Octopus of Colossal Size"?
(a) He ran into the seamen one day.
(b) He found it in a dream.
(c) He read it it a journal he found.
(d) He made it up himself.

15. In "The Marine Night," what does the poet want to burn with?
(a) Pain.
(b) Ships.
(c) Bonfires.
(d) Candles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Builder," what does the poet say he will build his likeness from?

2. What does the poet say about the sea at the end of "The Sea"?

3. In "Wine," what does the speaker desire to be?

4. In "Fear," what does the poet complain about?

5. Who knocks on the door in "Ode to the Tomato"?

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