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

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. How many poems are in the first part of The Book of Folly?
(a) Ten.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Forty.

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

4. What is the title of the poem "Rats Live On No Evil Star" based on?
(a) A palindrome.
(b) A fragment of a dream.
(c) A nonsensical phrase her daughter said.
(d) A nursery rhyme.

5. Who is "Mother and Daughter" addressed to?
(a) Claire.
(b) Joy.
(c) Marie.
(d) Linda.

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

7. Who is The Book of Folly dedicated to?
(a) Joy.
(b) Linda.
(c) Phillip.
(d) Gregor.

8. Whose full name is included in "Sweeney"?
(a) The author's husband's.
(b) The author's daughter's.
(c) The author's.
(d) The author's mother's.

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

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

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

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

13. "Rats Live On No Evil Star" is a revision of what Biblical story?
(a) The story of Job.
(b) Daniel in the lions' den.
(c) Adam and Eve.
(d) Joseph and his coat of colors.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the author at the beginning of "The Death Baby"?

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

3. Who casts doubt on Jesus' miracles in "The Jesus Papers"?

4. "The Silence" explains the motivation to write as an attempt to remain occupied so that what remains at bay?

5. How is Jesus depicted in "The Jesus Papers"?

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