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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What poem of Memye Curtis Tucker's is included in the collection?
(a) "Driving."
(b) "The Mentalist Leaves the Stage."
(c) "The Changeling."
(d) "Silence."

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

4. In "Year's End," the author writes, "Otherwise, not much has happened; we fell in love again, finding that one red feather on" what?
(a) The chicken.
(b) The wind.
(c) The hawk.
(d) The river.

5. In "Benavides, Texas, 1906," a two-month-old newspaper warns ranchers to expect relatives due to what?
(a) The war in Mexico.
(b) A drought.
(c) An upcoming holiday.
(d) A flood.

6. Who is the author of "Going Home"?
(a) Ben Judson.
(b) Marissa C. Martinez.
(c) Tom Absher.
(d) Jane Kenyon.

7. Who wrote "The Memory Prayer"?
(a) Diana Der-Hovanessian.
(b) John Phillip Santos.
(c) Fran Castan.
(d) Frances Richard.

8. Who do people curse in the poem "Avalanche"?
(a) The weatherman.
(b) The town drunk.
(c) The road crew.
(d) The government.

9. Who is the author of "Letter to an Ancestor"?
(a) Joy Harjo.
(b) Dwight Fullingim.
(c) Diana Der-Hovanessian.
(d) Naomi Shihab Nye.

10. In "Going Home," the author sees the addressee in where today?
(a) The airport.
(b) Hailing a cab.
(c) The bus station.
(d) The train station.

11. Who is the author of "my lost father"?
(a) Geoff Ripps.
(b) Lucille Clifton.
(c) Robert Phillips.
(d) Teresa Palomo Acosta.

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

13. What does the narrator release in "I Give You Back"?
(a) Her anger.
(b) Her fear.
(c) Her memories.
(d) Her inhibitions.

14. "Journey" is written by whom?
(a) Cathy Song.
(b) Kasey Jueds.
(c) Joy Harjo.
(d) Jeffrey Shotts.

15. Who wrote "My Grandmother Told Us Jokes"?
(a) Jeffrey Shotts.
(b) Richard Beban.
(c) David Keefe.
(d) Nicanor Parra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "That Kind of Marriage"?

2. Who is the author of "Tough Ride"?

3. In "Regrets on the Way to an Airport," the author writes that he has never filled his suitcase with remnants of what?

4. Who wrote "Ghazal (For William Stafford)"?

5. Who wrote the poem "Sister"?

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