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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 13: pages 142-151.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poem did Siv Cedering contribute to the collection?
(a) "The Question."
(b) "Silence."
(c) "Driving."
(d) "The Changeling."

2. What poem by Peter Sears is included in the collection?
(a) "The Question."
(b) "Silence."
(c) "Breath."
(d) "The Mentalist Leaves the Stage."

3. Who wrote "The Ants Are Using Sticks For Walls"?
(a) Ken Fontenot.
(b) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
(c) Emma Suarez-Baez.
(d) Martha Christina.

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

5. In "Passing Necessity," the author is humbled by hearing the first few bars of what song?
(a) Brahms's Hungarian Dances.
(b) Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
(c) Chopin's Scherzo in B minor.
(d) Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Higher Reaches," a man gloats that soon he will have nothing to say and will what?

2. In "Thinking of What the Jury is Deliberating," the author wants the man to spend the rest of his life in a cell with what on the wall?

3. What poem by Tony Hoagland is included in the collection?

4. Who is the author of "The Wren"?

5. Who is the author of "Truth"?

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