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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 15: pages 161-170.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "My Father in the Stacks"?
(a) Lisa Ruth Shulman.
(b) Jim Natal.
(c) David Hassler.
(d) Hal Sirowitz.

2. In "The Black and the Dazzle," the winter dawn is a wild light that finds and blesses everything with itself, while the cold air holds only a what?
(a) Slight humidity.
(b) Transparent possibility.
(c) Fridgid chill.
(d) Frostbite danger.

3. What gets lost in the dark in "Dedication"?
(a) A child.
(b) Poems.
(c) A dog.
(d) Shoes.

4. "Child Proof" is by what author?
(a) James Baker Hall.
(b) Lisa Brandenburg.
(c) Bill Meissner.
(d) Emma Mellon.

5. The author sees the ghosts of whom in "The House at 5 Allende Street"?
(a) His parents.
(b) His sister.
(c) His grandparents.
(d) His brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Naomi Shihab Nye live?

2. Who is the author of "My Valhalla"?

3. Who wrote "Raised Violence"?

4. Who wrote "Shedding Skin"?

5. "Autumn Quince" was written by whom?

(see the answer key)

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