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

2. Philip Levine held which of the following jobs?
(a) Railroad shipper.
(b) Insurance salesman.
(c) Chicken farmer.
(d) Bank teller.

3. Anne Sexton lived in which city?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Boston.
(c) Providence.
(d) Bangor.

4. Marilyn Hacker spends six months of the year in New York; the other six months in _____.
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Paris.
(c) Vancouver.
(d) New Orleans.

5. Which poet wrote about the "domestic self?"
(a) Sexton.
(b) Kinnell.
(c) Hollander.
(d) Levine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Schuyler compares poetry to which of the following?

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

3. Which of the following words best describes Sharon Olds' work?

4. Philip Levine was born in which Midwestern city?

5. In which year did Anne Sexton die?

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