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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The purpose of this chapter is to help students connect with what item?
(a) Inner poet.
(b) Roots.
(c) Subconscious.
(d) Mother.

2. Who wrote "Who We Were?"
(a) WIlliamson.
(b) Mitchell
(c) Hirsh.
(d) Cumin.

3. The author of this section encourages students to write about what topic?
(a) Future.
(b) Self preservation.
(c) Wildnerness.
(d) Childhood.

4. Students are asked to examine their:
(a) Mental stability.
(b) Ideas and assumptions.
(c) Life's purpose.
(d) Poetic journey.

5. Picturing a particular person in a particular place helps students to:
(a) Create a random scenario.
(b) Recall specific details.
(c) Explore emotions about that person.
(d) Draw a mental picture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the section about the handkerchief?

2. "As/Like/Finish the Sentence" calls for the student to answer how many questions?

3. Students writing about a journey should end up where?

4. The poem in this section should contain how many lines as a minimum?

5. What famous work is referenced in this section?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it important to experience writing in another person's voice?

2. How do the drawings used in "Your Mother's Kitchen" affect the final outcome of the poems?

3. Explore Leslie Ullman's contribution to this section. Why would one argue with oneself?

4. Explain the process used in "A Journey to Nowhere" by Susan Snively.

5. What is the general purpose of THE PRACTICE OF POETRY by Robin Behn?

6. Why are tabloids good fodder for poetry?

7. What is the purpose of using dream notebooks and existing journal entries?

8. Explain the purpose of presenting exercises to be used in groups.

9. Explain how acting as a narrator for the famous encounter might change the tone of the finished poem?

10. Explain the technique used in "Who We Were" by Edward Hirsh. What is the expected end result?

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