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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12: pages 133-141.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poem of Rolf Jacobsen's is included in the collection?
(a) "The Question."
(b) "Breath."
(c) "It Was Here."
(d) "Silence."

2. In "Almost Evenly Divided," the author's life is nearly evenly divided between being Puerto-Rican and a what?
(a) New Yorker.
(b) Chicagoan.
(c) Bostonian.
(d) San Franciscan.

3. Who is the author of the poem "Insurance"?
(a) Kimberly J. Brown.
(b) Dwight Fullingim.
(c) John Sangster.
(d) Vickie Karp.

4. Who is the author of "Bittersweet"?
(a) Emma Mellon.
(b) Lavonne J. Adams.
(c) Harriet Jacobs.
(d) Nancy Mairs.

5. Who wrote "First Grade"?
(a) Robert Dana.
(b) Herberto Padilla.
(c) Bill Meissner.
(d) Roger Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Going Home"?

2. In "Child Proof," the author writes, "Child is proof We come from somewhere else Where everyone" what?

3. In Rosellen Brown's untitled poem, who asks what friends are for?

4. Who is the author of the poem titled "Divorce"?

5. In what poem by David Williams were his ancestors were thrown away as if they were nothing?

(see the answer key)

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