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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Frank O'Hara, David Wagoner, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and W.D. Snodgrass.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In which city was Robert Hayden born?
(a) Detroit.
(b) New York.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Seattle.

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

4. Which of Cunningham's poems it the first to appear in his section?
(a) "Middle Passage."
(b) "For my Contemporaries."
(c) "To My Wife,"
(d) "A Century of Epigrams."

5. Olson believed poetry should be written based on _____, not meter.
(a) Syllables.
(b) Length.
(c) Breath.
(d) Tone.

Short Answer Questions

1. in Creeley's "The Rescue," the poet describes which tragedy?

2. Justice writes a poem about a lone reader waiting in a _____ at dusk.

3. "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" discusses what type of mine?

4. How many poets appear in the book?

5. Which series of numbers is in the poem titled, "A Century of Epigrams?"

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