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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 is the sister who is no longer there, now that she is gone, in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) A song.
(b) An empty chair, or simply air.
(c) A memory.
(d) A painting in shadow.

2. What question does the speaker ask the dead sister in the Coda of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Are you a flower or a well?
(b) Are you in pain?
(c) If you were a song, what song would you be?
(d) Can you see the sunset, still?

3. 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 kind.
(c) That the teacher is stupid.
(d) That the teacher is funny.

4. Who has killed so many sisters over the years in Part 6 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Jealous parents.
(b) Fearful men.
(c) Other sisters.
(d) Evil spirits.

5. Why does the speaker in the poem "Salt" say it is tempting to "look back"?
(a) It is glittery and pretty back there.
(b) It is worse than it is now.
(c) There are only two colors back there.
(d) There were a lot more animals back there than there are now.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will survive us after we're gone in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

2. What is "anything saved" equal to in the poem "A Drone Scans the Wreckage"?

3. What color is anger in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

4. What does the speaker ask if one of the sisters is hunting in Part 5 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?

5. What kind of flowers are in the painting in the poem "A Genre Painting"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In the poem "Health Class (1953)," why does the teacher scare the students?

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

6. Why should one avoid wearing cotton when making recordings, according to the poem "Princess Clothing"?

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

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

9. What does the speaker's mother in the poem "Blizzard" fight?

10. Why does the speaker implore people to keep their clothes on in the poem "Everyone Else's Sex Life"?

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