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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Dear Rose - Woodworking at the End of the World, Pages 96 - 113).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Beautiful Short Loser," what is nobody free without first doing?
(a) Breaking open.
(b) Hearing someone else for the first time.
(c) Winning.
(d) Eating.

2. In "No One Knows the Way to Heaven," what happens when two men walk holding hands into a bar?
(a) The room clears.
(b) Time stops.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The joke is on them.

3. In "Woodworking at the End of the World," what does the boy's voice sound like?
(a) His sister's.
(b) His mother's.
(c) An old man's.
(d) A bird's.

4. In "Rise and Shine," what does the speaker compare his mother's face to?
(a) A star.
(b) A gem.
(c) A flame.
(d) A thumbprint left over from whose god?

5. In "Not Even," what does the speaker decide he wants from now on at the end of the poem?
(a) Joy.
(b) Fame.
(c) Stillness.
(d) Heartache.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Rise and Shine," what does the speaker draw in purple marker?

2. Where does the speaker say he will not dance alone in "Not Even"?

3. In "The Last Dinosaurs," why is the dinosaur mad at the human?

4. In "The Last Prom Queen in Antarctica," where does the speaker play the piano?

5. In "Dear Rose," what does the speaker say he does to his life?

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