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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: pages 70-71.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote "Almost Evenly Divided"?
(a) Naomi Shihab Nye.
(b) Emma Suarez-Baez.
(c) Harriet Jacobs.
(d) Sandra Gail Teichmann.

3. Who wrote the poem, "So Far"?
(a) Lucille Clifton.
(b) Kimberly J. Brown.
(c) Naomi Shihab Nye.
(d) Maggie Anderson.

4. In "Shedding Skin," what does the author rub against?
(a) A glacier.
(b) A bear.
(c) A tree.
(d) A rock.

5. Who wrote "First Grade"?
(a) Herberto Padilla.
(b) Roger Jones.
(c) Robert Dana.
(d) Bill Meissner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What poem did Leonard Nathan write in the collection?

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

4. Who wrote "Simple Song of Being Oneself"?

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

(see the answer key)

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