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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 does "Elizabeth Gone" explore as the possibility of an escape?
(a) Education.
(b) Death.
(c) Parenthood.
(d) Marriage.

2. What type of conflict is present in "The Civil War"?
(a) Person vs. person.
(b) Person vs. society.
(c) Person vs. self.
(d) Person vs. nature.

3. The poem "You, Doctor Martin" puts the reader where?
(a) In Taft Cemetery and Memorial Gardens.
(b) Into Bedlam.
(c) In her empty home.
(d) Into the author's surgical suite.

4. Why is the speaker hospitalized in "The Break"?
(a) Giving birth.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Radiation treatment.
(d) A broken bone.

5. What are the maiden's replacement hands made of in "The Maiden Without Hands"?
(a) Wood.
(b) Gold.
(c) Bronze.
(d) Silver.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the sister poem to "The Double Image"?

2. "The Hex" describes the connection between the speaker's inability to appreciate happiness and her relationship to who?

3. What is the focus of the author's version of "Red Riding Hood"?

4. What theme is explored in "The Frog Prince"?

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

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