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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Awful Rowing Toward God.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the speaker doing in "The Fortress"?
(a) Praying.
(b) Making dinner.
(c) Bathing her child.
(d) Taking a nap.

2. Where do the poems come from in Transformations?
(a) Grimm's Fairy Tales.
(b) Greek mythology.
(c) Aesop's Fables.
(d) The stories of Hans Christian Anderson.

3. In what time frame does "Letter Written During a January Northeaster" take place?
(a) A day.
(b) A month.
(c) A week.
(d) Six months.

4. Who is pursuing the speaker in "Oh"?
(a) Death.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) A shadow.

5. Part I of the author's first book of poetry deals with the trauma of what?
(a) Losing custody of her children.
(b) Her first Christmas alone.
(c) Her struggle with radiation treatment.
(d) Her hospitalization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theme does the author explore in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"?

2. What poem personifies death as a hurried traveler?

3. Whose Biblical story is retold in "Making a Living"?

4. Who saves the fiddler in "The Wonderful Musician"?

5. What play is the source for the title All My Pretty Ones?

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