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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of "'Que Sera, Sera' and Other False Premises?"
(a) Trespassing.
(b) Forgery.
(c) French terminology.
(d) Negative opposites.

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

3. In this section, the author states that one of the hardest things for would-be poets to overcome is:
(a) Imagery.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Self criticism.
(d) Bad grades.

4. In this section, students will create what item?
(a) Quatrain.
(b) Simile.
(c) Haiku.
(d) Metaphor.

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

6. What adjective is best used to describe the end result?
(a) Self-referential.
(b) Volatile.
(c) Impressionistic.
(d) Involved.

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

8. How many poems will result from this group of exercises?
(a) 16.
(b) 24.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

9. The technique in this section is compared to what type of puzzle?
(a) Crossword.
(b) Acrostic.
(c) Sudoku.
(d) Word Search.

10. Which of the following is not one of the objectives in the exercise?
(a) Rewriting.
(b) Resuscitation.
(c) Re-imagining.
(d) Reassessment .

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

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

13. Complete the name of this chapter: ""Matthewsian Invisible ____."
(a) Poet.
(b) Man.
(c) Hinge.
(d) Aircraft.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What requires explanation and exploration?

3. In doing this exercise, students are asked to write about which topic?

4. "Smash Palace" teaches students the importance of which item?

5. In "Free-Verse Lineation," what is the format used in the original poem?

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