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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Posthumously Published Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must be found in "Kind Sir: These Woods"?
(a) Oneself.
(b) Maturity.
(c) Childlike innocence.
(d) Nature.

2. What does Doctor Faustus sell his soul to the devil for in "Faustus and I"?
(a) Knowledge and power.
(b) Eternal youth.
(c) Health and family.
(d) Money and fame.

3. Who is pursuing the speaker in "Oh"?
(a) A shadow.
(b) Death.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Mental illness.

4. Who is an outcast in "One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes"?
(a) The daughter with two eyes.
(b) The daughter with one eye.
(c) The son.
(d) The daughter with three eyes.

5. What are the maiden's replacement hands made of in "The Maiden Without Hands"?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Silver.
(c) Gold.
(d) Wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is portrayed as God in "The God-Monger"?

2. What type of poem is "For the Year of the Insane"?

3. Where does the title for the first poem in Live or Die come from?

4. Whose death does the author recount in "The Death Baby"?

5. "With Mercy For the Greedy" is a rebuttal to a friend's suggestion that the speaker should seek what?

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