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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Posthumously Published Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the speaker's daughter cry out for when she is in an accident in "Pain for a Daughter"?
(a) God.
(b) She does not cry out.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother (the speaker).

3. How is marriage portrayed in "Man and Wife"?
(a) A dismal trap.
(b) A career like any other.
(c) Playing house eternally.
(d) A blessed escape.

4. What is the speaker tortured by in "The Room of My Life"?
(a) The people around her.
(b) The objects around her.
(c) Her own thoughts.
(d) Her own creativity.

5. What happens with the author's obsessions, as seen in the Posthumously Published Works?
(a) She is unable to escape them.
(b) She is able to separate her obsessions from the rest of her life.
(c) She escapes her obsessions.
(d) They become who she is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of "Elizabeth Gone"?

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

3. "The Hex" describes the connection between the speaker's inability to appreciate happiness and her relationship to who?

4. Whose quote inspired The Awful Rowing Toward God?

5. Where else is a rare and exciting development in the author's style seen, other than in Posthumously Published Work?

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