The Book of Questions, III Quizzes

The Book of Questions, III Quiz

1 How many questions are in this poem?

Three

Two

Four

One
2 What is the main literary technique used in this poem?

Personification

Foreshadowing

Allusion

Pastiche
3 What is the name for continuing a sentence beyond a line break?

Apostrophe

Enjambment

Accumulation

Enthymeme
4 Neruda wrote “The Book of Questions” in which part of his life?

Throughout

Beginning

End

Middle
5 Which plants are personified in the poem?

A daisy and some grass

A geranium and some bushes

A rose and some trees

A violet and a field
6 Which two modes of transportation are personified in the poem?

A bicycle and a bus

A bicycle and a bus

A cart and a plane

An automobile and a train
7 What might the rose in the poem be wearing?

Dress

Pants

Blouse

Skirt
8 What are trees in the poem concealing?

Nests

Birds

Roots

Sky
9 What emotion does the automobile experience?

Regret

Sadness

Joy

Pain
10 What weather is the train experiencing in the poem?

Sun

Snow

Rain

Sleet
11 Which of the four stanzas is concerned with aesthetics and metaphysics?

Fourth

Second

First

Third
12 Which stanza is concerned with ethics?

First

Second

Third

Fourth
13 Which stanza considers the pathos of uselessness?

Third

First

Second

Fourth
14 Which stanza uses a rich metaphor that can be interpreted as political, spiritual, or social?

Third

Second

Fourth

First
15 What poetic form have these questions have been compared to?

Koan

Ballad

Sonnet

Ode
16 What makes the fact that the train is in the rain particularly sad?

It is huge

It is standing

It is Chilean

It is metal
17 What kinds of objects does this poem personify?

Everyday

Egg-shaped

Elegant

Extraordinary
18 Which question begins with an imperative?

Second

Fourth

Third

First
19 What kind of automobile is in the poem?

Singing

Exalting

Snoring

Thieving
20 Which word in the poem comes from a Latin word for “shine”?

Regrets

Sadder

Splendor

Naked
21 What political party did Neruda belong to?

Republican

Democrat

Green

Communist
22 How did Neruda (most likely) die?

Old Age

Murder

Cancer

Heart Attack
23 What is the tone of the poem?

Romantic

Elegiac

Silly

Philosophical
24 What is the overall world view of the poem?

Despairing

Pragmatic

Atheist

Animist
25 Who translated this poem?

Gabriel García Márquez

Harold Bloom

William O'Daly

Salvador Allende

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