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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) Pines.
(d) Mountains.

2. Who is the author of "Words My Friend Can't Bring Himself to Say"?
(a) Cyrus Cassells.
(b) Jack Brannon.
(c) Quintin Prout.
(d) Dwight Fullingim.

3. Who is the author of the poem "Garage Sale"?
(a) Brian Andreas.
(b) Sekine Hiroshi.
(c) Jane Kenyon.
(d) Jack Gilbert.

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

5. Who wrote the poem "Fame"?
(a) Nicanor Parra.
(b) Eric Zuckerman.
(c) Jack Brannon.
(d) Mick Hatten.

6. Who wrote "Cannon Beach"?
(a) Susan Marie Scavo.
(b) Susan V. Meyers.
(c) Fran Castan.
(d) Marissa C. Martinez.

7. Who wrote "Father, Herald Me Home"?
(a) David Keefe.
(b) Mick Hatten.
(c) Andy Young.
(d) Teresa Palomo Acosta.

8. Who wrote "What Was Once Reached For"?
(a) Jeffrey Shotts.
(b) Sekine Hiroshi.
(c) David Keefe.
(d) Nicanor Parra.

9. What is punctuation in the air in the poem "Insurance"?
(a) Raindrops.
(b) Snowflakes.
(c) The clouds.
(d) Each bird.

10. In Rosellen Brown's untitled poem, who asks what friends are for?
(a) Father.
(b) Uncle.
(c) Grandmother.
(d) Mother.

11. Who wrote the poem "Mindleaving"?
(a) Hayan Charara.
(b) Andy Young.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) Nuala Archer.

12. Who wrote the poem "Work"?
(a) Nuala Archer.
(b) Jay Bremyer.
(c) Fran Castan.
(d) Geoff Ripps.

13. Who is the author of "My Valhalla"?
(a) Robert Phillips.
(b) Yamanoguchi Baku.
(c) Mary Ann Wehler.
(d) Nuala Archer.

14. "A Serenade" is written by whom?
(a) Susan Marie Scavo.
(b) Leroy V. Quintana.
(c) Yamanoguchi Baku.
(d) Sekine Hiroshi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of "Father, Herald Me Home" asks her father to "reach across and pull me over the" what?

2. 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?

3. Who is the author of "Each Night"?

4. Who is the only person who lives in the town of "Benavides, Texas, 1906"?

5. The poem "Christmas" is written by whom?

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