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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 "Tough Ride"?
(a) Mary Ann Wehler.
(b) Sekine Hiroshi.
(c) Susan Marie Scavo.
(d) Teresa Palomo Acosta.

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

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

4. Who is the author of "Regrets on the Way to an Airport"?
(a) Joy Harjo.
(b) Frances Richard.
(c) Abbot Cutler.
(d) Ali Abunimah.

5. In the poem "Fame," fame does not care what?
(a) Who it destroys.
(b) Who wants it.
(c) Who can't handle it.
(d) Who gets in its way.

6. The poem "Christmas" is written by whom?
(a) Susan V. Meyers.
(b) Lan Se.
(c) Jane Hirshfield.
(d) San Le.

7. Where does the narrator of "That Kind of Marriage" sleep?
(a) In the dog house.
(b) In the garage.
(c) Upstairs.
(d) In the basement.

8. In "Each Night," images in dreams flash and fade in these darkened walls, and the author wants to climb into what?
(a) A spaceship.
(b) A car.
(c) The story.
(d) Bed.

9. Who is the author of "Each Night"?
(a) Morton Marcus.
(b) Diana Der-Hovanessian.
(c) Jay Bremyer.
(d) Catherine Bowman.

10. Who had shown the author how to play hide and seek in "Words My Friend Can't Bring Himself to Say"?
(a) Miss Betty.
(b) Miss Becky.
(c) Miss Patty.
(d) Miss Emily.

11. What poem of Rolf Jacobsen's is included in the collection?
(a) "Silence."
(b) "The Question."
(c) "It Was Here."
(d) "Breath."

12. Who wrote "Waking Up in the Morning"?
(a) Leroy V. Quintana.
(b) Ali Abunimah.
(c) Zymunt Frankel.
(d) David B. Prather.

13. Who is the author of "Benavides, Texas, 1906"?
(a) Marissa C. Martinez.
(b) Robert Phillips.
(c) Richard Beban.
(d) Quintin Prout.

14. Who wrote "The Lost Glove Is Happy"?
(a) Mary Ann Wehler.
(b) Kasey Jueds.
(c) Catherine Bowman.
(d) Nuala Archer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person?

2. Who wrote the poem "Fame"?

3. In "Truth," the author's world has always been what?

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

5. Who is the author of "The Colors of Another Home"?

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