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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What physical trait do Mary Anne, Gunnar, Jackie, Dell, and Hope all share, according to the poet in "Genetics"?
(a) Broad shoulders and small feet.
(b) Gaps between their front teeth.
(c) Dimples.
(d) Large noses.

2. Whose wish for a man's head on a platter is described in the poem "Bible Times"?
(a) Abel's.
(b) Salome's.
(c) Judas's.
(d) Cain's.

3. Who wrote the short story "The Selfish Giant"?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) Walt Whitman.

4. What happens to Pinocchio in the books, according to the poet in "Family"?
(a) He becomes a boy.
(b) He finds love.
(c) He falls from a cliff.
(d) He tells the truth.

5. When was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in the book is used to describe fire hydrants that are turned on for children in the summertime in New York?

2. Whose dream of a ladder to heaven is described in "Bible Times"?

3. What word has Hope said, causing his mother to hit him with a switch, in the poem "The Right Way to Speak"?

4. Where does the poet describe Bernie and Peaches moving in "Moving Again"?

5. What creatures "keep going / as though they know their song / is our lullaby" in the poem "Lullaby"?

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