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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 "Years of Solitude"?
(a) Dionisio D. Martinez.
(b) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
(c) Jim Natal.
(d) David Hassler.

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

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

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

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

6. Who wrote the poem "Dedication"?
(a) Lisa Ruth Shulman.
(b) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
(c) Martha Christina.
(d) Jim Natal.

7. 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) "Autumn morning."
(b) "Spring morning."
(c) "Winter night."
(d) "Summer night."

8. In "Sudden," the newspaper might have used the word "massive" if it had been a heart attack, but it used what instead?
(a) "Suddenly."
(b) "Debilitating."
(c) "Enormous."
(d) "Fatal."

9. Who wrote "What We Want"?
(a) Maggie Anderson.
(b) Vern Rutsala.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) Vickie Karp.

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

11. Who is the author of "The Family Car"?
(a) Jenny Browne.
(b) Tom Absher.
(c) Kimberly J. Brown.
(d) Teresa Palomo Acosta.

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

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

14. Who does the author tell to write his name on everything that belongs to him in "What the Stones Knew"?
(a) His son.
(b) His wife.
(c) His mother.
(d) His daugter.

15. Who wrote "Simple Song of Being Oneself"?
(a) Barbara McCauley.
(b) Philip Appleman.
(c) David Hassler.
(d) Vittorio Bodini.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote the poem titled "Stranded"?

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

4. In "Almost Evenly Divided," the author's life is nearly evenly divided between being Puerto-Rican and a what?

5. In "Drifter, Owl, Mouse," the mouse prays inside what?

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