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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker say about most poems in the poem "Late Poems"?
(a) Most poems are early.
(b) Most poems are from the future.
(c) Most poems are late.
(d) Most poems are sad.

2. What goes on calling in the end of the poem "The Dear Ones"?
(a) The mystery.
(b) The rage.
(c) The sorrow.
(d) The dawn.

3. How is time laid out in the poem "Salt"?
(a) Like a photo album.
(b) Like a movie.
(c) Like a picnic.
(d) Like a diagram.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the cat do in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

2. How many eyes does the drone have in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

3. What falls and falls in the end of the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

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

5. What do the children smash in the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of stories did the people used to tell in the poem "The Dear Ones?"

2. How does the speaker in the poem "Passports" feel about aging?

3. What does the speaker in "Everyone Else's Sex Life" think about everyone else's sex life?

4. What kind of people were the Scythians in the poem "Digging Up the Scythians"?

5. In the poem "Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday," where does Frida Kahlo live on?

6. What are some contradictions about cicadas in the poem by the same title?

7. How do the murdered sisters die in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

8. What are the images in tension with each other in the poem titled "A Genre Painting"?

9. In the poem "Aflame," what is happening to the world?

10. What is the problem with souvenirs, according to the speaker in the poem by the same name?

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