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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which year did Merrill win the Pulitzer Prize?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1983.

2. Robert Penn Warren is said to have written poetry in a _____ style.
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Metaphysical.
(c) Mercenary.
(d) Minimalist.

3. Which of the following words is used to describe Mary Swenson's work?
(a) Frivolous.
(b) Perceptive.
(c) Wise.
(d) Flawless.

4. What was Meredith's job?
(a) Auto mechanic.
(b) Aviator.
(c) Flying nurse.
(d) Captain.

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

6. John Ashbery lived in which European city?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Venice.
(d) Madrid.

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

8. In what year was the position established?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1971.

9. Frank O'Hara studied at which university?
(a) Brown.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) University of Montana.
(d) Yale.

10. Merrill moved back to the US in which year?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1961,
(c) 1968.
(d) 1974.

11. David Wagoner's work was greatly influenced by which native American tribe?
(a) Lakota.
(b) Plateau.
(c) Pueblo.
(d) Anasazi.

12. What is the latest year in which one of the poets was born?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1964.

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

14. Which poet was greatly influenced by William Butler Yeats and W.H. Auden?
(a) John Berryman.
(b) Theodore Roethke.
(c) Elizabeth Bishop.
(d) Randall Jarrell.

15. Which poet was the first director of the literary programs at the National Endowment for the Arts?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Levertov.
(c) Kizer.
(d) Bowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the profession of Richard Wilbur's father?

2. Richard Hugo taught at which university?

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

4. Charles Olson refers to himself as which of the following?

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

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