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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction by Naomi Shihab Nye, the author writes, "Losing makes us miserable, startles us awake. It's also" what?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Part of the game.
(c) A chance to learn.
(d) Sometimes fatal.

2. Who sits in the top bunk late at night in "Nine"?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Benjamin.
(c) Robert.
(d) Michael.

3. In "What We Want," the author writes, "we all want to be lost, and looked for, and found again and welcomed home in the smoky darkness on any" what?
(a) "Winter night."
(b) "Spring morning."
(c) "Summer night."
(d) "Autumn morning."

4. Who wrote "Hitchhiker"?
(a) Jimmy Santiago Baca.
(b) James Baker Hall.
(c) Jack Ridl.
(d) Lucille Clifton.

5. Who wrote the poem "Orange Juice"?
(a) Amy Adams.
(b) Herberto Padilla.
(c) Robert Dana.
(d) Lisa Ruth Shulman.

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

7. What poem did Siv Cedering contribute to the collection?
(a) "Silence."
(b) "Driving."
(c) "The Changeling."
(d) "The Question."

8. "Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule" is written by whom?
(a) Kimberly J. Brown.
(b) Angel Gonzales.
(c) Herberto Padilla.
(d) Philip Appleman.

9. Who is the author of "The Wren"?
(a) Emma Mellon.
(b) Linda Gregg.
(c) Barbara McCauley.
(d) Dionisio D. Martinez.

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

11. Who wrote "Almost Evenly Divided"?
(a) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
(b) Emma Suarez-Baez.
(c) Harriet Jacobs.
(d) Naomi Shihab Nye.

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

13. Who wrote "First Grade"?
(a) Roger Jones.
(b) Herberto Padilla.
(c) Robert Dana.
(d) Bill Meissner.

14. In "The New World," the author stared at the sculpture on the front lawn of what museum?
(a) The Montclair Art Museum.
(b) The Guggenheim Museum.
(c) The Museum of Scince and Indusrtry.
(d) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Mother's Day" was written by whom?

2. Who is the author of "That Was the Summer We Had Animals"?

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

4. "Other Lives" is by what author?

5. In "Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule," the author writes, "we also had the righteous ones who worshiped the True Faith, and" what?

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