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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 does the narrator release in "I Give You Back"?
(a) Her anger.
(b) Her memories.
(c) Her inhibitions.
(d) Her fear.

2. Who wrote "Almost Evenly Divided"?
(a) Naomi Shihab Nye.
(b) Harriet Jacobs.
(c) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
(d) Emma Suarez-Baez.

3. Who wrote "Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten"?
(a) William Trowbridge.
(b) Harryette Mullen.
(c) Anzar Hitoshi.
(d) Herberto Padilla.

4. In "The New World," the author stared at the sculpture on the front lawn of what museum?
(a) The Museum of Scince and Indusrtry.
(b) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(c) The Montclair Art Museum.
(d) The Guggenheim Museum.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "my lost father"?

2. What can the author remember clearly of the children of his first grade class in "First Grade"?

3. Who is the author of the poem "Insurance"?

4. What is an artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person?

5. In "Almost Evenly Divided," the author's life is nearly evenly divided between being Puerto-Rican and a what?

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