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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary device does "12 O'Clock News" employ?
(a) Simile.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Metaphor.

2. What is the subject of the three poems in Rainy Season; Sub Tropics?
(a) Bodies of water in the rain.
(b) Houses in the rain.
(c) Animals in the rain.
(d) Vegetation in the rain.

3. Who is the title character in "For C.W.B."
(a) Catherine Wentworth Barrett.
(b) Charles Watson Barrett.
(c) Unidentified.
(d) Clayton Wadsworth Barrett.

4. In "Banks," to what does the poet compare his complaining?
(a) A violin.
(b) A drum.
(c) A flute.
(d) A bassoon.

5. In "Lullaby for the Cat," what does the cat not want to do?
(a) Wake up.
(b) Eat.
(c) Go outside.
(d) Sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the symbolic meaning of "Pleasure Seas"?

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

3. What experience does the reader gain from the poems in Translations?

4. When was the Fannie Farmer Cookbook first published?

5. What does the devil remind the living in "Patience of an Angel"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the porch symbolize in "Sunday at Key West"?

2. How are the "Four Sambas" by Anonymous different from the rest of the poems in the book?

3. In Carlos Drummond de Andrade's "Infancy," why does the author refer to Robinson Crusoe as "the long story that never comes to an end"?

4. What is the meaning of the simple, repeated incident in Drummond de Andrade's "In the Middle of the Road"?

5. In what style is Bandeira's poem "Brazilian Tragedy" composed?

6. What do all the metaphorical places in "For C.W.B." have in common?

7. What is the double meaning of the phrase "family travelling through the flesh" in Drummond de Andrade's "Family Portrait"?

8. What does the poet mean by the line "We are too innocent and wise" in "The Wave"?

9. How is the character in "The Giant Snail" an exaggerated human figure?

10. Why does the poet begins the section called Geography III with a geography lesson that throws a series of unanswered questions at the reader?

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