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

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

3. Where is the Jain Bird Hospital located?
(a) Delhi.
(b) Prague.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Budapest.

4. In Sharon Olds' "The Glass," she writes about her father who is dying from a tumor in which part of his body?
(a) Lungs.
(b) Throat.
(c) Stomach.
(d) Brain.

5. Which one of the poets worked as a consultant to the Library of Congress?
(a) Schuyler.
(b) Hecht.
(c) Van Duyn.
(d) Moss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mona Van Duyn taught at which St. Louis based university?

2. Which of the poets wrote a piece titled, "The Sheep Child?"

3. William Matthews is not connected to which of the following colleges/universities?

4. Who wrote "The Mad Potter?"

5. Which poem was written for a survivor of Hiroshima?

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