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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 made a comeback for people to buy after the war in the poem "Coconut"?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Milk.

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

3. What did the speaker's mother used to say in the poem "Blizzard"?
(a) Let's go out and fight the storm.
(b) Let's find some flowers in the snow.
(c) Let's play in the snow.
(d) It's just a blizzard.

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 up the radio.
(d) Turn down the music.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do people give others souvenirs from vacations in the poem "Souvenir"?

2. What does the speaker imagine the cicadas' song is saying in the poem "Cicadas"?

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

4. What is the subject of the poem "Blizzard" curled up like?

5. What does the speaker drive into the soft eyes of the coconut in the poem "Coconut"?

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