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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Amy Clampitt, Dave Smith, Marilyn Hacker, William Matthews, and Sharon Olds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "The Mad Potter?"
(a) Sexton.
(b) Kinnell.
(c) Hollander.
(d) Levine.

2. In which year did Anne Sexton win the Pulitzer Prize?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1962.

3. Philip Levine was born in which Midwestern city?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Detroit.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) Chicago.

4. What was the name of the publication edited by Van Duyn?
(a) Meter.
(b) Illusions.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Denouement.

5. Which of the poets worked at the Museum of Modern Art?
(a) Schuyler.
(b) Moss.
(c) Dickey.
(d) Hecht.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a main theme in Amy Clampitt's work?

2. Who prompted Anne Sexton to start a writing career?

3. How old was Amy Clampitt when her first book was published?

4. Which poet works at Johns Hopkins University?

5. In Sharon Olds' "The Glass," she writes about her father who is dying from a tumor in which part of his body?

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