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

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

3. 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?
(a) Psalms.
(b) Writings of death.
(c) The faces of those he killed.
(d) A calendar marking his execution.

4. Who wrote "A Game Nobody Won"?
(a) Sekine Hiroshi.
(b) Leroy V. Quintana.
(c) Susan Marie Scavo.
(d) Yamanoguchi Baku.

5. In "Each Night," images in dreams flash and fade in these darkened walls, and the author wants to climb into what?
(a) The story.
(b) A spaceship.
(c) A car.
(d) Bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule" is written by whom?

2. In "Regrets on the Way to an Airport," the author writes that he has never filled his suitcase with remnants of what?

3. In "What We Want," the author writes, "we all want to be lost, and looked for, and found again and welcomed home in the smoky darkness on any" what?

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

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

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