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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: pages 45-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author find when he flees, trying to stay alone in "Simple Song of Being Oneself"?
(a) Fortune and kindness.
(b) Truth and danger.
(c) Lies and pain.
(d) Death and fear.

2. Whose dad tipped the boat in "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?
(a) Johnson's.
(b) Robertson's.
(c) Kaufman's.
(d) Ashley's.

3. In "Lens," the author wonders about the shouting in the house and why who must be watched?
(a) Sister.
(b) Brother.
(c) Mom.
(d) Dad.

4. Who wrote "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?
(a) Dionisio D. Martinez.
(b) David Hassler.
(c) Bill Meissner.
(d) Lisa Brandenburg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom is the poem "On the Suicide of a Young Boy I Did Not Know" written?

2. Who is the author of "and sometimes i hear this song in my head"?

3. Who wrote "At Home"?

4. What does the father serve in "Battleground State Park"?

5. "Battleground State Park" is written by whom?

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