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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "How Forgetting Works in Late Winter," mounds of snow exhale under the what?
(a) Blue sky.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Pines.

2. In "The Lost Glove Is Happy," the author loses her glove made where?
(a) China.
(b) Taiwan.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Laos.

3. What is an artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

4. In "Thinking of What the Jury is Deliberating," the author wants the man to spend the rest of his life in a cell with what on the wall?
(a) A calendar marking his execution.
(b) The faces of those he killed.
(c) Writings of death.
(d) Psalms.

5. Who is the author of the poem "Insurance"?
(a) Kimberly J. Brown.
(b) Dwight Fullingim.
(c) John Sangster.
(d) Vickie Karp.

6. Who wrote "Raised Violence"?
(a) Jack Brannon.
(b) Leroy V. Quintana.
(c) Linda Elkin.
(d) Eric Zuckerman.

7. Who wrote "I Give You Back"?
(a) Joy Harjo.
(b) Jane Hirshfield.
(c) Nicanor Parra.
(d) Tina Letcher.

8. Who wrote the poem "Avalanche"?
(a) Ali Abunimah.
(b) Eric Zuckerman.
(c) John Phillip Santos.
(d) David B. Prather.

9. Who is the author of "Secret of Life"?
(a) Diana Der-Hovanessian.
(b) Kimberly J. Brown.
(c) Emma Suarez-Baez.
(d) Susan V. Meyers.

10. In "What Came to Me," the author takes the last piece of what from a box?
(a) Paper.
(b) China.
(c) String.
(d) A puzzle.

11. What is the name of the narrator's son in "Tough Ride"?
(a) Dennis.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Jacob.
(d) David.

12. In "The Lost Glove Is Happy," the author is going where?
(a) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(b) Phoenix, Arizona.
(c) Salt Lake City, Utah.
(d) Lubbock, Texas.

13. "Thinking of What the Jury is Deliberating" was written by whom?
(a) Nuala Archer.
(b) Kasey Jueds.
(c) Geoff Ripps.
(d) Mick Hatten.

14. In "Truth," the author's world has always been what?
(a) Loud.
(b) Dark.
(c) Silent.
(d) Bright.

15. In "Lament," the author asks someone to do what for her through the darkened sky?
(a) Fly.
(b) Sing.
(c) See.
(d) Drive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Benavides, Texas, 1906"?

2. Who is the author of "Letter to an Ancestor"?

3. In "Divorce," the author wakes suddenly and hears what?

4. Who wrote "Model of the Heart at the Franklin Institute"?

5. "Autumn Quince" was written by whom?

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