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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Charles Wright, Audre Lorde, Mary Oliver, Jay Wright, and C.K. Williams.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the poets worked at the Museum of Modern Art?
(a) Hecht.
(b) Dickey.
(c) Moss.
(d) Schuyler.

2. Ammons favored which style?
(a) Quatrain.
(b) Epigram.
(c) Haiku.
(d) Limmerick.

3. David Wagoner wrote a poem about which activity?
(a) Flying.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Surfing.

4. In which year did Anne Sexton win the Pulitzer Prize?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1967.

5. Which of the following words is not used to describe Wright's work?
(a) Surreal.
(b) Mundane.
(c) Nostalgic.
(d) Rhetorical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who served as the first Poet Laureate of the United States?

2. "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" discusses what type of mine?

3. Which of the poets also worked as a playwright?

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

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

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