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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "What the Stones Knew"?
(a) Harryette Mullen.
(b) Anzar Hitoshi.
(c) Robert Dana.
(d) Lisa Ruth Shulman.

2. "What Gets Lost/Lo Que Se Pierde" is written by whom?
(a) Alastair Reid.
(b) Kimberly J. Brown.
(c) Jimmy Santiago Baca.
(d) John Sangster.

3. Donna Leed's untitled poem talks of how she never saw the road between her house and her grandmother's house why?
(a) She always fell asleep in the car.
(b) The headlights went dim.
(c) It was flooded.
(d) It was snow covered.

4. "Other Lives" is by what author?
(a) John Sangster.
(b) Vern Rutsala.
(c) Maggie Anderson.
(d) Hayan Charara.

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

6. Who is the author of "Waking Instructions"?
(a) Bill Meissner.
(b) Harryette Mullen.
(c) David Hassler.
(d) Emma Mellon.

7. Who wrote "Emergency Situation"?
(a) Barbara McCauley.
(b) Herberto Padilla.
(c) Robert Dana.
(d) Hal Sirowitz.

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

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

10. Who wrote "Leaving the Light On"?
(a) Lucille Clifton.
(b) Philip Appleman.
(c) Jack Myers.
(d) Alastair Reid.

11. Who is the author of the poem "I Myself"?
(a) Robert Dana.
(b) Anzar Hitoshi.
(c) Angel Gonzales.
(d) Hal Sirowitz.

12. Who wrote the poem titled "Stranded"?
(a) Jenny Browne.
(b) Craig Czury.
(c) Jack Ridl.
(d) Naomi Shihab Nye.

13. "Today I'll Sit Still" is written by whom?
(a) Jimmy Santiago Baca.
(b) Hayan Charara.
(c) Jack Myers.
(d) Ernesto Trejo.

14. What can the author remember clearly of the children of his first grade class in "First Grade"?
(a) Their faces.
(b) Their names.
(c) Their handwriting.
(d) Their stories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Sudden," the newspaper might have used the word "massive" if it had been a heart attack, but it used what instead?

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

3. Mom threw out the author's what in "Emergency Situation"?

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

5. When did the author lay out school supplies in "Bittersweet"?

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