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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. "Music Swims Back To Me" is a reflection on the speaker's immersion in what?
(a) Medical interventions.
(b) Family.
(c) Mental collapse.
(d) Poetry.

2. What is the author's relationship with the subject of "Somewhere in Africa"?
(a) Friend.
(b) Wife.
(c) Student.
(d) Colleague.

3. What is the subject of "The Operation"?
(a) Amputation.
(b) Biopsy.
(c) Lobotomy.
(d) Abortion.

4. Who is the author of The Complete Poems?
(a) Edgar Lee Masters.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Anne Sexton.

5. Who is "Mother and Daughter" addressed to?
(a) Claire.
(b) Marie.
(c) Joy.
(d) Linda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is an outcast in "One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes"?

2. What is the title of the first part of The Book of Folly?

3. What is the first poem in Part 1 of All My Pretty Ones?

4. In what year were the letters written that inspired "Walking in Paris"?

5. In what month does "Eighteen Days Without You" take place?

(see the answer key)

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