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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. W.S. Merwin attended which Ivy League school?
(a) Yale.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Princeton.

2. Mary Swenson received a degree in which discipline?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Literature.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Science.

3. Who served as the first Poet Laureate of the United States?
(a) Warren.
(b) Olson.
(c) Hayden.
(d) Garrigue.

4. Which of the poets had a Hasidic Russian rabbi for a father?
(a) Bowers.
(b) Hugo.
(c) Kizer.
(d) Levertov.

5. Justice writes a poem about a lone reader waiting in a _____ at dusk.
(a) School yard.
(b) Cemetery.
(c) Shopping mall.
(d) Garden.

6. Garrigue was influenced by which famous composer?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Schumann.
(c) Tchaikovsky.
(d) Chopin.

7. Carolyn Kizer wrote a poem about man's abuse of which natural resource?
(a) Water.
(b) Air.
(c) Steel.
(d) Oil.

8. In what year did Swenson move to New York?
(a) 1946,
(b) 1949.
(c) 1959,
(d) 1953.

9. While in residence in Europe, Ashbery held which job?
(a) Policeman.
(b) Art critic.
(c) Tour guide.
(d) Waiter.

10. "Amusing Our Daughters" was written to which of the poet's family members?
(a) Father.
(b) Brother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Mother.

11. Allen Ginsberg is closely affiliated with which poetic movement?
(a) Post Modernist.
(b) Pre-war.
(c) Beat Generation.
(d) New York Renaissance.

12. The introduction states that American art was great because of _____.
(a) Unity.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Adversity.
(d) Trust.

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

14. W.D. Snodgrass served in which branch of the armed forces?
(a) Air Force.
(b) Marines.
(c) Army.
(d) Navy.

15. Which city was the center of the great poetry Renaissance?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard Hugo grew up in which western US city?

2. Which poet wrote the "Autumn Shade" series?

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

4. Richard Hugo taught at which university?

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

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