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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10: pages 108-119.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Higher Reaches," a man gloats that soon he will have nothing to say and will what?
(a) Stay silent.
(b) Say it loudly.
(c) Say it perfectly.
(d) Say it without fear.

2. Who is the author of the poem "Garage Sale"?
(a) Jane Kenyon.
(b) Brian Andreas.
(c) Jack Gilbert.
(d) Sekine Hiroshi.

3. Who wrote "My Grandmother Told Us Jokes"?
(a) David Keefe.
(b) Richard Beban.
(c) Jeffrey Shotts.
(d) Nicanor Parra.

4. Who is the author of "Benavides, Texas, 1906"?
(a) Richard Beban.
(b) Marissa C. Martinez.
(c) Quintin Prout.
(d) Robert Phillips.

5. What is the coat lined with in "My Father's Coat"?
(a) Fish scales.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Dog hair.
(d) Feathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. "What Gets Lost/Lo Que Se Pierde" is written by whom?

2. In "Hitchhiker," the author sees a hitchhiker on the edge of town that is a pupil who stayed late after school to write loneliness and love where?

3. Who wrote the poem "Dedication"?

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

5. Who wrote "My Father in the Stacks"?

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