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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. Why do people give others souvenirs from vacations in the poem "Souvenir"?
(a) So they can decorate their homes.
(b) So they will want to travel too.
(c) So they can call the spirits.
(d) So the receiver can remember them.

2. What would be only fair in Part 7 of the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) For summer to start again.
(b) For the birds to be set free.
(c) For the sister to live on in in the afterlife.
(d) For someone to kill the man who killed the sister.

3. What season is it in the end of Part 4 in the poem "Songs For Murdered Sisters"?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

4. What word does the speaker in the poem "September Mushrooms" imagine the mushrooms sent up before they withered?
(a) Hail!
(b) Beware.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Glory.

5. What defines cotton in the poem "Princess Clothing"?
(a) It is brown.
(b) It is the mark of poverty.
(c) It is soft.
(d) It is crackly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the speaker's mother used to say in the poem "Blizzard"?

2. What goes on calling in the end of the poem "The Dear Ones"?

3. Which of the speaker's cats was smart enough to evade the vet in the poem "Ghost Cat"?

4. Who is the speaker concerned about in the poem "Blizzard"?

5. Why does the speaker not realize how good things were in the poem "Salt"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the poem "Betrayal" about?

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

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

6. Why do people carve jack-o-lanterns in the poem "Carving the Jacks"?

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

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

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

10. What happens when the Tin Woodwoman gets a massage in the poem by the same name?

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