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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 do people also save along with passports in the poem "Passports"?
(a) Chocolates.
(b) Paintbrushes.
(c) Pearls.
(d) Curls of hair from children or lovers.

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

3. Why does the speaker not realize how good things were in the poem "Salt"?
(a) She was working too hard.
(b) She was too sleepy.
(c) She was too busy worrying.
(d) She was too ill.

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

5. What does the speaker implore her partner to do if she ever develops dementia in the poem "Ghost Cat"?
(a) Call the children to care for her.
(b) Send her to a care home.
(c) Take care of her.
(d) Turn the key and bar the window.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?

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

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

5. What is silk best for in the poem "Princess Clothing"?

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