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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Book of Folly.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the last story in Transformations?
(a) "Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose)."
(b) "Happily Ever After."
(c) "Hansel and Gretel."
(d) "The Frog Prince."

2. What is the second poem in Part 1 of All My Pretty Ones?
(a) "The Truth the Dead Know."
(b) "Lament."
(c) "Old Dwarf Heart."
(d) "All My Pretty Ones."

3. "Music Swims Back To Me" presents an irony of the freedom where?
(a) In an asylum.
(b) In a hospital room.
(c) Parenthood.
(d) Confined to a home.

4. "Torn Down From Glory Daily" describes an encounter with a group of what?
(a) Crows.
(b) Ducks.
(c) Gulls.
(d) Chickens.

5. In "For Eleanor Boylan Talking With God," what does the speaker witness a woman doing?
(a) Weeping.
(b) Praying.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the speaker's daughter cry out for when she is in an accident in "Pain for a Daughter"?

2. Who is the speaker traveling to see in the poem "Flight"?

3. "Kind Sir: These Woods" is a meditation on becoming what?

4. "The Death of Fathers" and "Angels of the Love Affair" are both comprised of _____ shorter poems.

5. What is the subject of "Those Times"?

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