1 What does the word "surfeit" mean? Charter or agreement Excess Complaint Large dinner party 2 Which best characterizes this poem? It makes heavy use of figurative language It follows an elaborate, complex formal structure It embraces moral ambiguity, leaving readers unsure who to root for It focuses on the psyche of the speaker 3 Which best describes the poem's speaker? A dictator An unidentified, omniscient third-person speaker A journalist bearing witness to the dictator's cruelty An unidentified, limited first-person speaker 4 Where are the poem's first several lines set? A schoolbuilding A coffee shop A military hospital A sugarcane field 5 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? AABAABABA It has no rhyme scheme ABBACDDCABBACDDC ABCBAADCD 6 What is the dictator's palace compared to? A teapot A watch face A dog's mouth A diamond ring 7 Who is the translator of the version discussed in this guide? Mark Eisner W.S. Merwin Ben Belitt Pablo Neruda 8 Neruda compares the palace-dwellers to "wineglasses, _____, and piping." Gemstones Collars Chocolates Drumbeats 9 What is the poem's meter? Anapestic hexameter It is free verse Trochaic trimeter Iambic pentameter 10 What does the word "finical" mean? Multifaceted Shiny Picky Erudite 11 Which of the following does the poem sharply critique? Fascism and authoritarianism Religious extremism Adult cruelty to children Industrialization 12 How many lines are in this poem? 10 14 17 15 13 Which of the following phrases does NOT contain alliteration? "The snout filled with silence and slime" "carrion, blood, and a nausea" "the plant and its pollen" "the blinded, big leaves" 14 Which of the following are juxtaposed? The dictator and his allies The plant and the pollen Laughter and death The snout and the bones 15 What does the word "satrap" mean? An exclusive, government-sponsored club A grand palace A subordinate ruler or official A type of trap used to catch mice and rats 16 Which type of sensory imagery is prominent in the poem's opening lines? Taste imagery Tactile imagery Sound imagery Smell imagery 17 What does the plant most likely symbolize? The refuge of nature Life under dictatorship The power of the arts God's abandonment 18 Which is NOT one of the poem's themes? Gender Evil and oppression Inequality Death 19 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "Lament was perpetual" "Vendetta was born" "their festering surfeit of bones" "A finical satrap conversed" 20 Which of the following serve as a synecdochic representation in the poem? A mouth A plant A petal A glove 21 What does the word "carrion" mean? A brand of gun popular in fascist Spain A battle cry Decaying dead bodies A type of bird of prey 22 Neruda uses a simile to compare which of the following to a flower petal? A military medal A flag The smell of corpses A gunshot wound 23 In which era is this poem most likely set? The mid-twentieth century The 1970s The early Medieval period The late eighteenth century 24 How does Neruda depict authoritarians? As vulnerable and frightened As sadistic and monstrous As zealous and obsessive As frivolous and willfully blind 25 What does the word "bludgeon" mean? Broken-down vehicle Blunt person Toolbox Physical blow