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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IX: Magnolia Flowers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker in "Little Old Letter" claim pen and paper have the power to do?
(a) Burn up and turn meaningless.
(b) Seal a deal.
(c) Guarantee your rights.
(d) Take a person's life.

2. What did the speaker's lover in "Lover's Return" come home to do?
(a) Die.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Cry.
(d) Cook.

3. What does the speaker see in "Seascape"?
(a) "The faces of children, dreaming of sweets."
(b) "A line of fishing ships."
(c) "A row of soldiers on the shore."
(d) "My own future, going down with the ship."

4. What does the speaker encourage the reader to wonder about when down by the river?
(a) How beautiful nature is.
(b) What (you) got left.
(c) The power of love.
(d) The preciousness of children.

5. What "mellows to a golden note" in "Trumpet Player"?
(a) Music.
(b) Rage.
(c) Trouble.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man in "Ballad of the Fortune Teller"?

2. What women are surrounding the speaker in "Sylvester's Dying Bed"?

3. What did the speaker's mother say when life hurt her in the poem "Spirituals"?

4. What does the speaker say the sea is a wilderness of in "Long Trip"?

5. What does the speaker hope for her child in the poem "Lament over Love"?

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