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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. "Our Suits, Ourselves" asks students to compare themselves with:
(a) Their parents.
(b) An inanimate object.
(c) A cloud.
(d) A tree.

2. In "Estrangement and Reconciliation," with whom does the student argue?
(a) Mother.
(b) Self.
(c) Classmate.
(d) Teacher.

3. Some students used figures such as which politician?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) JFK.

4. Who caught the handkerchief?
(a) Delores.
(b) Dottie.
(c) Deborah.
(d) Dolly.

5. Exercises in this section give students:
(a) Insight
(b) Permission
(c) Inspiration
(d) A headache

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of this section encourages students to write about what topic?

2. "Getting at Metaphor" is comprised of how many parts?

3. What example is not used in this section?

4. Who wrote "Your Mother's Kitchen"?

5. "The Unconscious as Gold Mine" consists of how many exercises?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the technique and purpose behind the exercise in "The Widow."

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

3. Why does Dove insist that students use their first drawings for the poetry exercise?

4. Explain the purpose of "Translations: Idea to Change."

5. What is the only request made by Roger Mitchell in the "Breaking the Sentence; or, No Sentences, but in Things?"

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

7. Explain the exercise involving a copy of "The Peasant Wedding" by Bruegel.

8. Explain the exercise featured in "Quilting in the Ditch."

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

10. Why does Michael Pettit refer to the work of Walt Whitman?

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