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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 "That Was the Summer We Had Animals"?
(a) John Sangster.
(b) Jimmy Santiago Baca.
(c) Jack Ridl.
(d) Bill Meissner.

2. In "Lens," the author wonders about the shouting in the house and why who must be watched?
(a) Mom.
(b) Brother.
(c) Dad.
(d) Sister.

3. What can the author remember clearly of the children of his first grade class in "First Grade"?
(a) Their stories.
(b) Their faces.
(c) Their handwriting.
(d) Their names.

4. What poem did Leonard Nathan write in the collection?
(a) "The Changeling."
(b) "Kind."
(c) "It Was Here."
(d) "Driving."

5. Who is the author of "Organdy Curtains, Window, South Bank of the Ohio"?
(a) Craig Czury.
(b) Ben Judson.
(c) James Baker Hall.
(d) Lavonne J. Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Aqueducts," the author imagines the aqueducts where?

2. Who is the author of "Waking Instructions"?

3. Who wrote the poem "Orange Juice"?

4. 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?

5. In "Almost Evenly Divided," the author's life is nearly evenly divided between being Puerto-Rican and a what?

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