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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. What poem did Leonard Nathan write in the collection?
(a) "Kind."
(b) "The Changeling."
(c) "It Was Here."
(d) "Driving."
2. In the Introduction by Naomi Shihab Nye, the author writes, "Losing makes us miserable, startles us awake. It's also" what?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Part of the game.
(c) A chance to learn.
(d) Sometimes fatal.
3. What poem did Siv Cedering contribute to the collection?
(a) "The Question."
(b) "The Changeling."
(c) "Silence."
(d) "Driving."
4. Who wrote "Simple Song of Being Oneself"?
(a) Vittorio Bodini.
(b) David Hassler.
(c) Philip Appleman.
(d) Barbara McCauley.
5. In "Sudden," the newspaper might have used the word "massive" if it had been a heart attack, but it used what instead?
(a) "Fatal."
(b) "Suddenly."
(c) "Debilitating."
(d) "Enormous."
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the author of "Song of the Prodigal Son"?
2. Who wrote "First Grade"?
3. What gets lost in the dark in "Dedication"?
4. In "Lens," the author wonders about the shouting in the house and why who must be watched?
5. Whose dad tipped the boat in "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the father feel in "Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten"? What irony is described?
2. How does the author describe his parents in "Leaving the Lights On"?
3. Why did the author's mother throw out his underwear in "Emergency Situation"?
4. What word did the newspaper use in "Sudden"? Why?
5. What happens in the poem "David"? What images are described?
6. How does the author use metaphor to describe the hitchhiker in "The Hitchhiker"?
7. What similes and metaphors are prevalent in "Custody"?
8. What question is the author asked in "First Grade"? What is the meaning?
9. What similes are described in "Other Lives"?
10. What did the author's mother give her in "The Ants Are Using Sticks For Walls"?
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