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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are students required to do in "Rhapsodizing Repetitions?"
(a) Repeat the same word in each line.
(b) Repeat meanings of words.
(c) Learn to rhapsodize.
(d) Avoid repetitions.

2. The author also seeks to create what item in the students?
(a) Awareness.
(b) Encouragement.
(c) Fearlessness.
(d) Empathy.

3. Dana Gioia discusses which topic?
(a) Free verse.
(b) Villianelles.
(c) Prose.
(d) Lyric poetry.

4. This exercise may require students to use what as an aid?
(a) Dictionary.
(b) Fellow student.
(c) Erasable ink.
(d) Thesaurus.

5. Students are encouraged to use unusual words through which method?
(a) Creating adjectives.
(b) Googling "unusual words."
(c) Writing in Pig Latin.
(d) Adding prefixes and suffixes.

6. Who wrote "Opposites: The Attraction of Titles?"
(a) Myerson.
(b) Dischell.
(c) Bern.
(d) Behn.

7. The author refers to this section as being:
(a) Wacky.
(b) Intense.
(c) Loose.
(d) Free form.

8. What are the two types of endings?
(a) Sterling and Convoluted.
(b) Triumphant and Meek.
(c) Transformative and Emphatic.
(d) Strong and Consistent.

9. What type of song is "Shall We Dance?"
(a) Line dance.
(b) Rhumba.
(c) Waltz.
(d) Pas de deux.

10. Most of the exercises in this section are:
(a) Missing.
(b) Multiple choice.
(c) Short essays.
(d) Pointless.

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

12. What requires explanation and exploration?
(a) Free verse.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) First impressions.
(d) Drawings.

13. What is the purpose of "Index/Table of Contents Exercise?"
(a) To create characterization.
(b) To understand how books are published.
(c) To outline a book.
(d) To learn how to index.

14. What are homonyms?
(a) Words that are opposites.
(b) Words with the same meaning but different spellings.
(c) Words that sound the same.
(d) A style of poetry involving people.

15. Who wrote "The Shell Game?"
(a) Starling.
(b) Maines.
(c) Hogg.
(d) Rabbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of using a common set of opposites, the author suggests using something similar to which topic?

2. Words are categorized using what base?

3. This exercise is compared to which item/object?

4. "The Fill-in-the-Blanks or Definition Poem" discusses what common object?

5. How many poetry exercises are contained in Part 5?

(see the answer keys)

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