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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. Who wrote "Raised Violence"?
(a) Linda Elkin.
(b) Jack Brannon.
(c) Eric Zuckerman.
(d) Leroy V. Quintana.

2. Who wrote the poem titled "Sudden"?
(a) Nick Flynn.
(b) Naomi Shihab Nye.
(c) Jack Myers.
(d) Vern Rutsala.

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

4. In the poem "Fame," fame does not care what?
(a) Who it destroys.
(b) Who wants it.
(c) Who can't handle it.
(d) Who gets in its way.

5. What poem by Tony Hoagland is included in the collection?
(a) "The Changeling."
(b) "Breath."
(c) "The Question."
(d) "It Was Here."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator find his ancestor's name in "Letter to an Ancestor"?

2. What is punctuation in the air in the poem "Insurance"?

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

4. What poem by Peter Sears is included in the collection?

5. Who is the author of "Regrets on the Way to an Airport"?

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