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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. "Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule" is written by whom?
(a) Philip Appleman.
(b) Angel Gonzales.
(c) Herberto Padilla.
(d) Kimberly J. Brown.

2. What can the author remember clearly of the children of his first grade class in "First Grade"?
(a) Their faces.
(b) Their stories.
(c) Their names.
(d) Their handwriting.

3. Who wrote "Shedding Skin"?
(a) Nancy Mairs.
(b) Maggie Anderson.
(c) Linda Gregg.
(d) Harryette Mullen.

4. "Mother's Day" was written by whom?
(a) Lisa Ruth Shulman.
(b) Daisy Zamora.
(c) Roger Jones.
(d) Sandra Gail Teichmann.

5. When did the author lay out school supplies in "Bittersweet"?
(a) Just before Christmas.
(b) New Years Day.
(c) Each August.
(d) Every two weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mom threw out the author's what in "Emergency Situation"?

2. Who wrote the poem "Orange Juice"?

3. Where does Naomi Shihab Nye live?

4. In "Hitchhiker," the author sees a hitchhiker on the edge of town that is a pupil who stayed late after school to write loneliness and love where?

5. In what poem by David Williams were his ancestors were thrown away as if they were nothing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What similes and metaphors are prevalent in "Custody"?

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

3. What does the author discover in the sculptures in "The New World"?

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

5. How does the author describe his parents in "Leaving the Lights On"?

6. What was the world once filled with in "Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule"?

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

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

9. How did the author lose words in "Naming"? What does she recall?

10. What personification and metaphor is used in the poem "Stranded"?

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