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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: pages 58-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of the poem "I Myself"?
(a) Anzar Hitoshi.
(b) Angel Gonzales.
(c) Robert Dana.
(d) Hal Sirowitz.

2. 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?
(a) "Autumn morning."
(b) "Summer night."
(c) "Winter night."
(d) "Spring morning."

3. In "Drifter, Owl, Mouse," the mouse prays inside what?
(a) A tree trunk.
(b) The owl's talon's.
(c) The owl's beak.
(d) A rock outcropping.

4. In "Sudden," the newspaper might have used the word "massive" if it had been a heart attack, but it used what instead?
(a) "Suddenly."
(b) "Fatal."
(c) "Debilitating."
(d) "Enormous."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Higher Reaches"?

2. What is the coat lined with in "My Father's Coat"?

3. In "Lens," the author wonders about the shouting in the house and why who must be watched?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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