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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. Who casts doubt on Jesus' miracles in "The Jesus Papers"?
(a) John the Baptist.
(b) The author.
(c) Judas.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

2. What kind of poems are the collection "O Ye Tongues"?
(a) Psalms.
(b) Epitaphs.
(c) Odes.
(d) Haiku.

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

4. What award was given to the author for Live or Die?
(a) The Edgar Allen Poe Prize.
(b) The Nobel Prize.
(c) The Pushcart Prize.
(d) The Pulitzer Prize.

5. In "For Mr. Death Who Stands With His Door Open", the speaker personifies ______ and ______.
(a) Faith and doubt.
(b) Death and life.
(c) Time and tide.
(d) Time and death.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what point of view is "It Is a Spring Afternoon" written?

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

3. "Rats Live On No Evil Star" is a revision of what Biblical story?

4. Who does "The Starry Night" borrow a quote from?

5. Where does the title for the first poem in Live or Die come from?

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