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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which year did Merrill win the Pulitzer Prize?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1983.

2. Which city was the center of the great poetry Renaissance?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Chicago.
(d) San Francisco.

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

4. Mary Swenson received a degree in which discipline?
(a) Literature.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Science.

5. Justice writes a poem about a lone reader waiting in a _____ at dusk.
(a) Cemetery.
(b) Garden.
(c) Shopping mall.
(d) School yard.

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

7. Which of the poets had a Hasidic Russian rabbi for a father?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Kizer.
(c) Levertov.
(d) Bowers.

8. Which poet was the first director of the literary programs at the National Endowment for the Arts?
(a) Bowers.
(b) Hugo.
(c) Kizer.
(d) Levertov.

9. Merrill moved back to the US in which year?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1961,
(c) 1968.
(d) 1959.

10. What is the latest year in which one of the poets was born?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1959.

11. While in residence in Europe, Ashbery held which job?
(a) Tour guide.
(b) Art critic.
(c) Policeman.
(d) Waiter.

12. Duncan was linked to the _______ poets.
(a) Greenwich Village.
(b) Black Mountain.
(c) Post Modern.
(d) Ancient Greek.

13. "Mule Team and Poster" was based on a photograph taken by which of the following?
(a) Leiberman.
(b) Dorchest.
(c) Walker.
(d) Adams.

14. Which of the following words is not used in reference to Howard Nemerov's work?
(a) Light.
(b) Sardonic.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Brooding.

15. Frank O'Hara was deeply affected by the death of which famous artist?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Pollock.
(c) Whistler.
(d) Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the poets was a high school football star?

2. According to the text, the best English language literature was produced in which century?

3. In what year did Swenson move to New York?

4. "The Tourist from Syracuse" was inspired by the writing of which author?

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

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