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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. In "Passing Necessity," the author is humbled by hearing the first few bars of what song?
(a) Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
(b) Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto.
(c) Brahms's Hungarian Dances.
(d) Chopin's Scherzo in B minor.

2. In "Year's End," the author writes, "Otherwise, not much has happened; we fell in love again, finding that one red feather on" what?
(a) The river.
(b) The wind.
(c) The chicken.
(d) The hawk.

3. Who is the author going to visit in "The Lost Glove Is Happy"?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her mother.

4. 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) Frostbite danger.
(b) Transparent possibility.
(c) Slight humidity.
(d) Fridgid chill.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Almost Evenly Divided"?

2. Who is the author of "Benavides, Texas, 1906"?

3. In the poem "Work," what is the cashier's name?

4. What can the author remember clearly of the children of his first grade class in "First Grade"?

5. In "I Give You Back," the author writes "so you can no longer keep me naked and ____ in the winter"?

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