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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: pages 22-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "The New Blade"?
(a) Barbara McCauley.
(b) Hal Sirowitz.
(c) Anzar Hitoshi.
(d) Jim Natal.

2. Who is the author of "and sometimes i hear this song in my head"?
(a) Harriet Jacobs.
(b) Daisy Zamora.
(c) Lisa Brandenburg.
(d) Martha Christina.

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

4. "Mother's Day" was written by whom?
(a) Lisa Ruth Shulman.
(b) Roger Jones.
(c) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
(d) Daisy Zamora.

5. Who wrote "Shedding Skin"?
(a) Harryette Mullen.
(b) Linda Gregg.
(c) Maggie Anderson.
(d) Nancy Mairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the poem "I Myself"?

2. In the Introduction by Naomi Shihab Nye, the author writes, "Losing makes us miserable, startles us awake. It's also" what?

3. In "Waking Instructions," the author writes that one should allow oneself to be different, but it will feel like falling attached to what?

4. In "The Ants Are Using Sticks For Walls," ten-year-old girls want to be how old?

5. Who does the author tell to write his name on everything that belongs to him in "What the Stones Knew"?

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