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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. Whose full name is included in "Sweeney"?
(a) The author's mother's.
(b) The author's.
(c) The author's daughter's.
(d) The author's husband's.

2. What is particularly depicted in "God's Backside"?
(a) Hot weather.
(b) Cold weather.
(c) A flood.
(d) A fire.

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

4. "Kind Sir: These Woods" is a meditation on becoming what?
(a) Found.
(b) An adult.
(c) A child again.
(d) Lost.

5. What poem is the companion poem to "The Rowing Endeth"?
(a) The book's second poem.
(b) The book's first poem.
(c) The first poem in Live or Die.
(d) The book's last poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Torn Down From Glory Daily" describes an encounter with a group of what?

2. How many poems are in Part 3 of All My Pretty Ones?

3. Who solves the mystery of "Twelve Dancing Princesses?"?

4. Who is killed the same day that the speaker receives a visitor in "Sweeney"?

5. Where do the poems come from in Transformations?

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