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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 is an outcast in "One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes"?
(a) The son.
(b) The daughter with three eyes.
(c) The daughter with two eyes.
(d) The daughter with one eye.

2. What does the building represent in "Riding the Elevator Into the Sky"?
(a) Human struggles.
(b) Reincarnation.
(c) Human consciousness.
(d) Faith.

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

4. What is the title of the author's first book of poetry?
(a) Elizabeth Gone.
(b) To Bedlam and Part Way Back.
(c) Kind Sir: These Woods.
(d) The Moss of His Skin.

5. What theme is explored in "The Frog Prince"?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Trust.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author decide to endure the pains of life for in the last poem in Live or Die?

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

3. "Music Swims Back To Me" presents an irony of the freedom where?

4. Where is "The Double Image" set?

5. "With Mercy For the Greedy" is a rebuttal to a friend's suggestion that the speaker should seek what?

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