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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of "The New Blade"?
(a) Hal Sirowitz.
(b) Anzar Hitoshi.
(c) Jim Natal.
(d) Barbara McCauley.

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

5. "Battleground State Park" is written by whom?
(a) Dionisio D. Martinez.
(b) Martha Christina.
(c) Vittorio Bodini.
(d) Philip Appleman.

6. What poem by Peter Sears is included in the collection?
(a) "Breath."
(b) "Silence."
(c) "The Question."
(d) "The Mentalist Leaves the Stage."

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

8. Who is the author of "Lens"?
(a) Ken Fontenot.
(b) Hayan Charara.
(c) Tom Absher.
(d) Kimberly J. Brown.

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

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

11. Where does Naomi Shihab Nye live?
(a) San Antonio, Texas.
(b) Flagstaff, Arizona.
(c) Pueblo, Colorado.
(d) Salt Lake City, Utah.

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

13. Whose dad tipped the boat in "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?
(a) Johnson's.
(b) Kaufman's.
(c) Ashley's.
(d) Robertson's.

14. In "Hitchhiker," the author sees a hitchhiker on the edge of town that is a pupil who stayed late after school to write loneliness and love where?
(a) In the sand.
(b) On a tree.
(c) In the dirt.
(d) On the chalkboard.

15. Who wrote "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?
(a) Bill Meissner.
(b) Lisa Brandenburg.
(c) Dionisio D. Martinez.
(d) David Hassler.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Stranded," the beloved's name drips from the author's what?

2. Who wrote "Leaving the Light On"?

3. In what poem by David Williams were his ancestors were thrown away as if they were nothing?

4. In "Aqueducts," the author imagines the aqueducts where?

5. "What Gets Lost/Lo Que Se Pierde" is written by whom?

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