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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "and sometimes i hear this song in my head"?
(a) Daisy Zamora.
(b) Harriet Jacobs.
(c) Martha Christina.
(d) Lisa Brandenburg.

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

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

4. In "Almost Evenly Divided," the author's life is nearly evenly divided between being Puerto-Rican and a what?
(a) Chicagoan.
(b) Bostonian.
(c) San Franciscan.
(d) New Yorker.

5. Mom threw out the author's what in "Emergency Situation"?
(a) Baseball cards.
(b) Fishing lures
(c) Comic books.
(d) Underwear.

6. In "Drifter, Owl, Mouse," the mouse prays inside what?
(a) The owl's beak.
(b) The owl's talon's.
(c) A rock outcropping.
(d) A tree trunk.

7. For whom is the poem "On the Suicide of a Young Boy I Did Not Know" written?
(a) Selma and Josephine.
(b) Kaitlin and Jorie.
(c) Becca and Rosa.
(d) Jennifer and Bridgett.

8. Who wrote the poem "Nine"?
(a) Amy Adams.
(b) Dionisio D. Martinez.
(c) Harryette Mullen.
(d) Lavonne J. Adams.

9. "Mother's Day" was written by whom?
(a) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
(b) Roger Jones.
(c) Lisa Ruth Shulman.
(d) Daisy Zamora.

10. In "Naming," the author has lost the meaning of words, but she still knows the meaning of sugar and what?
(a) Pine needle.
(b) Spices.
(c) Salt.
(d) Flour.

11. In "Aqueducts," the author imagines the aqueducts where?
(a) Northern Italy.
(b) Eastern Germany.
(c) Southern Italy.
(d) Western Germany.

12. Who is the author of "Bittersweet"?
(a) Harriet Jacobs.
(b) Lavonne J. Adams.
(c) Emma Mellon.
(d) Nancy Mairs.

13. Who wrote "Naming"?
(a) James Baker Hall.
(b) Nancy Mairs.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) Roger Jones.

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

15. Who wrote "Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten"?
(a) William Trowbridge.
(b) Harryette Mullen.
(c) Anzar Hitoshi.
(d) Herberto Padilla.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Legend"?

2. Who does the author meet at a crossroads in "I Myself"?

3. Who wrote the poem titled "Stranded"?

4. Whose dad tipped the boat in "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?

5. In "Lens," the author wonders about the shouting in the house and why who must be watched?

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