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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Drifter, Owl, Mouse," the mouse prays inside what?
(a) The owl's talon's.
(b) A tree trunk.
(c) A rock outcropping.
(d) The owl's beak.

2. In "This Isn't Fair," the author's beloved leaves the room when he asks if she loves him, but he calls her back frantically to give her what?
(a) An explanation.
(b) A ring.
(c) A poem.
(d) A book.

3. "Child Proof" is by what author?
(a) Lisa Brandenburg.
(b) James Baker Hall.
(c) Bill Meissner.
(d) Emma Mellon.

4. In "Travelling Light," the author wants "nothing more anymore only wind stroking waves onto" what?
(a) "Sandy beaches."
(b) "Jagged rocks."
(c) "A mangrove forest."
(d) "A distant shore."

5. Who sits in the top bunk late at night in "Nine"?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Michael.
(c) Robert.
(d) Benjamin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "My Father in the Stacks"?

2. Who wrote the poem titled "Sudden"?

3. Who wrote "At Home"?

4. Who is the author of "The Wren"?

5. What is the coat lined with in "My Father's Coat"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What similes are used to describe water in "Aqueducts"?

2. How does the author describe death in "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?

3. What word did the newspaper use in "Sudden"? Why?

4. What similes are described in "Other Lives"?

5. How are the people described in the poem "and sometimes i hear this song in my head"?

6. What is "Almost Evenly Divided" in the poem by this name?

7. How does the author use metaphor to describe the hitchhiker in "The Hitchhiker"?

8. How is the coat described in "My Father's Coat"?

9. How does the father feel in "Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten"? What irony is described?

10. What structural choices did the author make in "What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute"? Why?

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