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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Not Even," what does the speaker want to say to his mother as her body bag is zipped?
(a) Godspeed.
(b) Finally.
(c) Get out of there.
(d) You won.

2. In "Not Even," what does napalm have?
(a) A "rainbow afterglow."
(b) A friend.
(c) A foe.
(d) A legacy.

3. In "Künstlerroman," what does the speaker compare cigarettes in the dark to?
(a) Hope.
(b) Stars.
(c) Christmas lights.
(d) Fireflies in a bomb shelter.

4. In "Künstlerroman," what is the street the speaker's car crashed on?
(a) Main Road.
(b) Firefly Road.
(c) Helsom Road.
(d) Risley Road.

5. In "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker," what sweet snack does the worker buy?
(a) M&Ms.
(b) Little Debbie cakes.
(c) Gummi bears.
(d) Sweet dumplings.

6. In "Scavengers," who does the fisherman become at the end of the poem?
(a) A husband.
(b) A boy with too much to carry.
(c) A priest.
(d) A ghost.

7. In "Nothing," what do ghosts who are family say?
(a) Funny things.
(b) Mean things.
(c) Lies.
(d) Prayers.

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

9. In "Künstlerroman," what is one tragic scene the speaker revisits?
(a) His son's funeral.
(b) A lynching.
(c) A fire in his old apartment.
(d) A car accident.

10. In "Nothing," what does the speaker imagine as rising from the bread?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Spells.
(d) Poems.

11. In "Nothing," what does the speaker brush from Peter's beard?
(a) Crumbs.
(b) Fuzz.
(c) Ice.
(d) Chocolate.

12. In "Reasons for Staying," what does a blade of brown rye multiplied by thousands create?
(a) A piece of bread.
(b) A purple field.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Miracles.

13. In "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker," what purchase does the worker make that seems to be in anticipation of her death?
(a) A photo album.
(b) A suitcase.
(c) An urn.
(d) A diary.

14. In "Not Even," what does the speaker say he used to be?
(a) A drink.
(b) A journal.
(c) An anomaly.
(d) A fag.

15. In "Not Even," what does the speaker say a morgue can also be?
(a) A library.
(b) An omen.
(c) A church.
(d) A community center.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Nothing," what does Peter's grandmother survive?

2. In "Nothing," whose recipe is the bread recipe?

3. In "Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker," what painkiller does the worker buy?

4. In "Toy Boat," what are the sparrows "pierced by"?

5. In "Tell Me Something Good," what does the speaker pack a bag with?

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