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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Louise Gluck, Sandra McPherson, Michael Palmer, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and Kay Ryan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the poets wrote a piece titled, "Frederick Douglass?"
(a) Garrigue.
(b) Cunningham.
(c) Olson.
(d) Hayden.

2. Which poet wrote "Another Life?"
(a) Pinsky.
(b) Harper.
(c) Simic.
(d) Bidart.

3. Mona Van Duyn taught at which St. Louis based university?
(a) University of Missouri.
(b) Howard University.
(c) Washington University.
(d) St. Louis University.

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

5. What is the earliest year in which one of the poets was born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1923.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous poet first inspired Charles Wright?

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

3. Which word is not used to describe Ellen Bryant Voigt's work?

4. Which of the poets had a Hasidic Russian rabbi for a father?

5. Randall Jarrell's poetry is typically centered around which event/era?

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