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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, A.R. Ammons, John Ashbery, and James Wright.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the poets was a high school football star?
(a) Moss.
(b) Hecht.
(c) Dickey.
(d) Schuyler.

2. Who was heavily influenced by Theodore Roethke?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Justice.
(c) Bowers.
(d) Auden.

3. Which of Cunningham's poems it the first to appear in his section?
(a) "To My Wife,"
(b) "A Century of Epigrams."
(c) "Middle Passage."
(d) "For my Contemporaries."

4. David Wagoner's work was greatly influenced by which native American tribe?
(a) Plateau.
(b) Pueblo.
(c) Anasazi.
(d) Lakota.

5. Richard Hugo taught at which university?
(a) University of Idaho.
(b) University of Wisconsin.
(c) University of Montana.
(d) University of Iowa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of Lowell's poems?

2. While in residence in Europe, Ashbery held which job?

3. Garrigue was influenced by which famous composer?

4. What position did Dickey hold in the army during WWII?

5. Which of the poets wrote a piece titled, "The Sheep Child?"

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