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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Doctor Faustus sell his soul to the devil for in "Faustus and I"?
(a) Knowledge and power.
(b) Health and family.
(c) Eternal youth.
(d) Money and fame.

3. What game does the speaker play with God in "The Rowing Endeth"?
(a) Pictionary.
(b) Poker.
(c) Go Fish.
(d) Chess.

4. When was The Awful Rowing Toward God published?
(a) The year after the author's death.
(b) The year of the author's death.
(c) The year before the author's death.
(d) The year of the author's divorce.

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

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

7. How many poems are in the collection "O Ye Tongues"?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Nine.

8. What myth is retold in "The Fire Thief"?
(a) Persephone.
(b) Icarus.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Prometheus.

9. Whose Biblical story is retold in "Making a Living"?
(a) Jonah's.
(b) Noah's.
(c) Daniel's.
(d) Moses'.

10. What poem has the author wondering if she is becoming an antisocial shut-in like the old woman who used to live in her neighborhood as a girl?
(a) "The Children."
(b) "The Room of My Life."
(c) "The Shut-in."
(d) "The Witch's Life."

11. Where is the author at the beginning of "The Death Baby"?
(a) In the arms of Death.
(b) In her bed.
(c) In the woods.
(d) On the River Styx.

12. "The Hex" describes the connection between the speaker's inability to appreciate happiness and her relationship to who?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her sister.

13. What is the purpose of the first poem in Transformations?
(a) To act as an introduction and explanation.
(b) To create the author as the wicked witch.
(c) To share a fairy tale about the author's daughter.
(d) To share a fairy tale about the author's son.

14. Where is the blame assigned in "The Earth Falls Down"?
(a) The speaker's sister.
(b) Blame is not assigned.
(c) The speaker's mother.
(d) The speaker herself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who interferes with the speaker's prayers in "Praying on a 707"?

2. How many parts is The Book of Folly divided into?

3. Who visits the speaker in "Sweeney"?

4. What is the title of the poem "Rats Live On No Evil Star" based on?

5. What poem is the companion poem to "The Rowing Endeth"?

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