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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What memory does the toad in "Giant Toad" recall?
(a) Being dropped in someone's soup.
(b) Being left in someone's bed.
(c) Being chased.
(d) Being forced to smoke a cigarette.

2. In what years were the poems in Uncollected Poems composed?
(a) 1927-1971.
(b) 1961-1971.
(c) 1927-1979.
(d) 1927-1937.

3. What is described in "Love Lies Sleeping"?
(a) Waking in a hotel.
(b) Riding on a train.
(c) Riding on a plane.
(d) Waking in a house.

4. Where does the old man in "At the Fishhouses" bring his fish?
(a) Calgary.
(b) Ontario.
(c) Boston.
(d) Nova Scotia.

5. "Questions of Travel" is in what format?
(a) A list of meandering questions.
(b) An answer to a single question.
(c) A debate.
(d) Question and answer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the poet located as she composes "Night City"?

2. What does Bishop mean when she asks Moore to "please come flying" in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?

3. In "Pink Dog," what does the poet suggest about including the dog at Carnival?

4. In "The Moose," why are the people's reactions to the moose surprising?

5. What is one question the poet asks in "Questions of Travel"?

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