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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. "The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts" is a poetic dialogue between the speaker and who?
(a) Her husband's lover.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her friend.

2. What is the focus of the author's version of "Red Riding Hood"?
(a) The grandmother.
(b) The relationship between Red Riding Hood and the woodsman.
(c) The improbability of the outcome.
(d) The wolf.

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

4. How many parts is The Book of Folly divided into?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

5. "The Silence" explains the motivation to write as an attempt to remain occupied so that what remains at bay?
(a) Reminders of dreams forgotten.
(b) Reminders of responsibilities.
(c) Reminders of a lost love.
(d) Reminders of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second poem in Part 5 of All My Pretty Ones?

2. Why is the speaker hospitalized in "The Break"?

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

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

5. What does "Elizabeth Gone" explore as the possibility of an escape?

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