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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. Who does the author tell to write his name on everything that belongs to him in "What the Stones Knew"?
(a) His son.
(b) His wife.
(c) His daugter.
(d) His mother.

2. "Other Lives" is by what author?
(a) Maggie Anderson.
(b) John Sangster.
(c) Vern Rutsala.
(d) Hayan Charara.

3. Who is the author of "That Was the Summer We Had Animals"?
(a) John Sangster.
(b) Jack Ridl.
(c) Bill Meissner.
(d) Jimmy Santiago Baca.

4. Whose dad tipped the boat in "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?
(a) Robertson's.
(b) Ashley's.
(c) Johnson's.
(d) Kaufman's.

5. Who wrote "My Father in the Stacks"?
(a) David Hassler.
(b) Jim Natal.
(c) Lisa Ruth Shulman.
(d) Hal Sirowitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "At Home"?

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

3. What poem by Haas H. Mroue is included in the collection?

4. "What Gets Lost/Lo Que Se Pierde" is written by whom?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author miss in "Song of the Prodigal Son"?

2. How are the mother's suicide attempts described in "Lens"?

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

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

5. What happens in the poem "David"? What images are described?

6. What is being searched for in "What We Want"? How are the people described?

7. How is the "beloved" described in the poem "This Isn't Fair"?

8. How is the author's encounter described in "I, Myself"?

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

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

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