The Book of Questions, III Quizzes

The Book of Questions, III Quiz

1 How many questions are in this poem?
Four

Two

Three

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

Personification

Foreshadowing

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

Enthymeme

Apostrophe

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

Throughout

Middle

End
5 Which plants are personified in the poem?
A violet and a field

A geranium and some bushes

A rose and some trees

A daisy and some grass
6 Which two modes of transportation are personified in the poem?
A cart and a plane

A bicycle and a bus

A bicycle and a bus

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

Dress

Blouse

Pants
8 What are trees in the poem concealing?
Nests

Roots

Birds

Sky
9 What emotion does the automobile experience?
Pain

Joy

Regret

Sadness
10 What weather is the train experiencing in the poem?
Sleet

Snow

Sun

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

Second

Fourth

Third
12 Which stanza is concerned with ethics?
Second

First

Fourth

Third
13 Which stanza considers the pathos of uselessness?
Fourth

Third

Second

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

Second

First

Third
15 What poetic form have these questions have been compared to?
Ode

Sonnet

Ballad

Koan
16 What makes the fact that the train is in the rain particularly sad?
It is standing

It is huge

It is metal

It is Chilean
17 What kinds of objects does this poem personify?
Egg-shaped

Extraordinary

Elegant

Everyday
18 Which question begins with an imperative?
Second

Fourth

Third

First
19 What kind of automobile is in the poem?
Thieving

Snoring

Exalting

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

Naked

Splendor

Sadder
21 What political party did Neruda belong to?
Green

Communist

Republican

Democrat
22 How did Neruda (most likely) die?
Cancer

Murder

Old Age

Heart Attack
23 What is the tone of the poem?
Silly

Elegiac

Romantic

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

Despairing

Pragmatic

Atheist
25 Who translated this poem?
Harold Bloom

Gabriel García Márquez

William O'Daly

Salvador Allende

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