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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous poem is referenced in "A Lewis Carroll Carol?"
(a) Phantasmagoria.
(b) The Hunting of the Snark.
(c) Through the Looking Glass.
(d) Jabberwocky.

2. How long will it takes students to complete the course used in "Writer's Block: An Antidote?"
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 6 days.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 3 weeks.

3. "The Party of the Century" is what type of exercise?
(a) Individual.
(b) Group.
(c) Two part.
(d) Continuing.

4. What adjective may be used to describe this section?
(a) Stupendous.
(b) Rewarding.
(c) Silly.
(d) Daunting.

5. How long will it take students to complete the assignment in "Short Lines and Long Lines?"
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 1 week.

6. What famous poet is referred to in "Rhapsodizing Repetitions?"
(a) Pound.
(b) Ashbery.
(c) Poe.
(d) Heaney.

7. Who wrote "Make Your Own System?"
(a) McDonald.
(b) McEvoy.
(c) Mac Low.
(d) Mackie.

8. "Smash Palace" teaches students the importance of which item?
(a) Diversion.
(b) Spelling.
(c) Punctuation.
(d) Grammar

9. What woman's name is mentioned as an example?
(a) Sissy.
(b) Sally.
(c) Sibyl.
(d) Susan.

10. Students are required to begin the exercise using what type of poem?
(a) Free verse.
(b) Loosely structured.
(c) Varied.
(d) Formal prose.

11. In "Emotion/Motion/Ocean/Shun," the author teaches students about what topic?
(a) Nesting rhymes.
(b) Parallel concepts.
(c) Anit-rhythm.
(d) Progression of vowel usage.

12. What are the two different kinds of truths?
(a) Factual and psychological.
(b) Moral and amoral.
(c) True or false.
(d) Intuitive and actual.

13. "Finish This!" uses a poem by what famed female poet?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Emma Lazarus.
(c) Edna St. Vincent Millay.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

14. Gioia requires students to write their poems in what way?
(a) Standing on the table tops.
(b) In the air.
(c) With crayons.
(d) With their left hands.

15. Seamus Heaney is from which country?
(a) England.
(b) Wales.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of "Personal Universe Deck?"

2. The author refers to this section as being:

3. Complete the name of this chapter: ""Matthewsian Invisible ____."

4. Who wrote "The Shell Game?"

5. Who wrote "The Fill-in-the-Blanks or Definition Poem?"

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