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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. Where did the speaker in "Late Last Night" sit and cry?
(a) At the cemetary.
(b) At the bank.
(c) In the garden.
(d) On the steps.

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

3. What is the one thing the fortune teller in "Ballad of the Fortune Teller" couldn't see?
(a) When she was going to die.
(b) Where her lover went.
(c) That her business was going to go bankrupt.
(d) That she was going to be robbed.

4. What does the speaker wonder about his own death in "Cross"?
(a) Who will mourn for him.
(b) Who will get his inheritance.
(c) If anyone will even notice.
(d) Where he will die.

5. In the poem "Fire," who does the author say he has had more women than?
(a) Than the gardener had tomatoes.
(b) Than the president had votes.
(c) Than Pharoah had wives.
(d) Than the forest had trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the waves cutting the darkness with in "Moonlight Night: Carmel"?

2. When the speaker asks his lover if she understands him in "Maybe," what does she say?

3. Where is Miss Gardner in "Southern Mammy Sings"?

4. In "As I Grew Older," what does the speaker say he had nearly forgotten?

5. With what triumphant phrase does the speaker conclude "Still Here"?

(see the answer key)

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