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Q. Flowers represent which of Laura's qualities?
Beauty
Fragility
Kindness
Ticklishness
Q. Laura is just a woman, right?
What else would she be?
Well, yeah. But she also represents ideal beauty.
No. She's really Petrarch's cat.
She also symbolizes anger.
Q. What is the "secluded port" in line 24?
Petrarch's grave
Petrarch's office
Petrarch's house
Petrarch's boat
Q. With what is the natural world most closely associated in this poem?
Petrarch
Decay
Madness
Laura
Q. To what is Petrarch referring when he speaks of "the true image" in line 60?
Laura's face
Heaven
Earth, reality
Sanity