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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 24).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker praise in the poem "If There Were No Emptiness"?
(a) Masks.
(b) Vacancy.
(c) Crowds.
(d) Vandalism.

2. What does the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?
(a) A barn.
(b) A kitchen.
(c) A dance.
(d) A three-ring circus.

3. What do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Pins.
(b) Screws.
(c) Tiny frogs.
(d) Doors.

4. What does the speaker implore the reader to do in the last stanza of "Late Poems"?
(a) Turn up the light.
(b) Turn down the bedcovers.
(c) Turn down the music.
(d) Turn up the radio.

5. What do the students like to pretend about the health teacher in "Health Class (1953)"?
(a) That they will all be successful one day.
(b) That the teacher is stupid.
(c) That the teacher is kind.
(d) That the teacher is funny.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is time laid out in the poem "Salt"?

2. What made a comeback for people to buy after the war in the poem "Coconut"?

3. What does the speaker say her passport photos looks like in the poem "Passports"?

4. What is the woman working with in the poem "A Genre Painting"?

5. How is the woman in the painting looking out of it in "A Genre Painting"?

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