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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Step three requires students to use what tool?
(a) Similie.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Antonym.
(d) Juxtaposition.

2. How many lists are students required to save?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

3. "The Unconscious as Gold Mine" consists of how many exercises?
(a) 15.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 11.

4. Which item are students not required to study in this section?
(a) Randomness.
(b) Detail.
(c) Syntax.
(d) Specifics.

5. What is the name of the first section?
(a) "The Unconsious as Gold Mine".
(b) "Translations: Idea to Image".
(c) "Dream Notebooks".
(d) "First Words".

6. What are these items called?
(a) Subtractions.
(b) Abstractions.
(c) Interactions.
(d) Reactions.

7. Approximately how many writing exercises are included in the book?
(a) 50.
(b) 75.
(c) 100.
(d) 90.

8. The author in this section refers to which holiday?
(a) New Year's Eve.
(b) Memorial Day.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Halloween.

9. What famous work is referenced in this section?
(a) Tale of Two Cities.
(b) Wuthering Heights.
(c) Moby Dick.
(d) Gentlemen's Agreement.

10. What poet is used as a reference?
(a) Eliot .
(b) Bishop.
(c) Bronte.
(d) Morrison.

11. In which section are journal entries referred to as a source of material?
(a) "Material Gathering"
(b) "Subconscious Writing".
(c) "Poetic Journaling"..
(d) "Only Connect".

12. "Translations: Idea to Image" is an exercise in:
(a) Language.
(b) Free association.
(c) Prose.
(d) Sonnets.

13. Students writing about a journey should end up where?
(a) Home.
(b) Back in class.
(c) An unknown destination.
(d) Anywhere it is cold.

14. The author claims that poems created in this way will be:
(a) Varied and significant.
(b) Vivid and transparent.
(c) Traumatic and deep.
(d) Telling and creative.

15. Maura Stanton's character hates what object?
(a) Spaghetti.
(b) Mud.
(c) Water.
(d) Airplanes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Who We Were?"

2. "Getting at Metaphor" was written by which author?

3. Students are required to avoid what item in their work?

4. Which item is not in the list of items?

5. "Our Suits, Ourselves" asks students to compare themselves with:

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