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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who visits the speaker in "Sweeney"?
(a) A press agent.
(b) The speaker's sister.
(c) A newspaper reporter.
(d) The speaker's cousin.

2. What is represented as a pair of applauding hands in "Two Hands"?
(a) God.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Faith.

3. What is the first poem in the first part of The Book of Folly?
(a) "The Ambition Bird."
(b) "The Assassin."
(c) "The Jesus Papers."
(d) "The First Poem."

4. What poem is the companion poem to "The Rowing Endeth"?
(a) The book's second poem.
(b) The book's first poem.
(c) The first poem in Live or Die.
(d) The book's last poem.

5. What is personified in "The Assassin"?
(a) Parenthood.
(b) Sex.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Death.

6. How does the author describe herself at the beginning of "The Death Baby"?
(a) As a baby.
(b) As a new mother.
(c) As an artist.
(d) As Death.

7. "Words" is a poem about the ______ of language.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Inadequacy.
(c) Power.
(d) Inappropriateness.

8. In "The Earth Falls Down," what is the speaker trying to place blame for?
(a) Her sister's death.
(b) The world's problems.
(c) Her mother's death.
(d) Her mental illness.

9. What ability is given to the person who eats a magical snake in "The White Snake"?
(a) The ability to transform into a white snake.
(b) The ability to transform others into a white snake.
(c) The ability to speak to snakes.
(d) The ability to communicate with animals.

10. What Biblical story is retold in "Jesus Walking"?
(a) The Crucifixion.
(b) Christ walking on water.
(c) The Israelites wandering in the desert.
(d) The temptation of Christ by the Devil.

11. Who is killed the same day that the speaker receives a visitor in "Sweeney"?
(a) The author's sister.
(b) The author's cousin.
(c) The author's brother.
(d) The author's neighbor.

12. What is the title of the first part of The Book of Folly?
(a) "The Jesus Papers."
(b) "Part the First."
(c) "Twenty Poems."
(d) "Thirty Poems."

13. What are the maiden's replacement hands made of in "The Maiden Without Hands"?
(a) Gold.
(b) Bronze.
(c) Silver.
(d) Wood.

14. Who saves the fiddler in "The Wonderful Musician"?
(a) The woodcutter.
(b) The mouse.
(c) The fox.
(d) The milkmaid.

15. Who solves the mystery of "Twelve Dancing Princesses?"?
(a) The king.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A servant.
(d) A prince.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of "Snow"?

2. Whose quote inspired The Awful Rowing Toward God?

3. What type of conflict is present in "The Civil War"?

4. Who is pursuing the speaker in "Oh"?

5. Where do the poems come from in Transformations?

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