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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is silk best for in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) Shrouds.
(b) Dresses.
(c) Sheets.
(d) Towels.
2. What happens if one "looks behind" in the poem "Salt"?
(a) His hair falls out.
(b) He turns to stone.
(c) He turns to marshmallow.
(d) He turns to salt.
3. Who has killed so many sisters over the years in Part 6 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Fearful men.
(b) Other sisters.
(c) Evil spirits.
(d) Jealous parents.
4. What does the neon sign in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" say?
(a) Help!
(b) Love! This Way! In!
(c) Beware.
(d) Bombs Away!
5. What did the speaker's mother used to say in the poem "Blizzard"?
(a) Let's play in the snow.
(b) Let's go out and fight the storm.
(c) Let's find some flowers in the snow.
(d) It's just a blizzard.
6. What do the hinges of the speaker's joints creak like in the poem "The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage"?
(a) Pins.
(b) Doors.
(c) Tiny frogs.
(d) Screws.
7. What does the speaker say about most poems in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) Most poems are early.
(b) Most poems are late.
(c) Most poems are from the future.
(d) Most poems are sad.
8. What will survive us after we're gone in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?
(a) The work of our knives.
(b) The songs.
(c) The stories.
(d) The darkness.
9. Where does the speaker in the poem "Souvenir" appear more often than she used to?
(a) Other people's dreams.
(b) Pizza restaurants.
(c) Funeral parlors.
(d) The park.
10. How is time laid out in the poem "Salt"?
(a) Like a diagram.
(b) Like a movie.
(c) Like a picnic.
(d) Like a photo album.
11. What does the health teacher in the poem "Health Class" tell her students the classroom is NOT?
(a) A three-ring circus.
(b) A kitchen.
(c) A dance.
(d) A barn.
12. What is the first line of the poem "Shadow"?
(a) Someone wants your body.
(b) The light fades away from day.
(c) Who has two?
(d) Be aware.
13. What would be only fair in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) For the birds to be set free.
(b) For the sister to live on in in the afterlife.
(c) For summer to start again.
(d) For someone to kill the man who killed the sister.
14. Why, if victorious, did the scythians fight in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?
(a) For the legends.
(b) For the glory.
(c) For the king's honor.
(d) For the loot.
15. Who is the speaker concerned about in the poem "Blizzard"?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her sister.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the speaker implore her partner to do if she ever develops dementia in the poem "Ghost Cat"?
2. How is the woman in the painting looking out of it in "A Genre Painting"?
3. What was standing there when the door was opened in Part 3 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
4. What do people also save along with passports in the poem "Passports"?
5. Who is in bed together in the poem "Betrayal"?
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