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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 wrote "Hitchhiker"?
(a) James Baker Hall.
(b) Jack Ridl.
(c) Jimmy Santiago Baca.
(d) Lucille Clifton.
2. What poem did Leonard Nathan write in the collection?
(a) "Kind."
(b) "The Changeling."
(c) "It Was Here."
(d) "Driving."
3. Who wrote "Legend"?
(a) Ben Judson.
(b) Bruce Bennett.
(c) Philip Appleman.
(d) Craig Czury.
4. To whom is "What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute" dedicated?
(a) The Empress Gemmei.
(b) The Princess Takara.
(c) The Empress Michiko.
(d) The Empress Saimei.
5. Who is the author of "Years of Solitude"?
(a) David Hassler.
(b) Dionisio D. Martinez.
(c) Jim Natal.
(d) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Naming," the author has lost the meaning of words, but she still knows the meaning of sugar and what?
2. What poem by Peter Sears is included in the collection?
3. "Child Proof" is by what author?
4. When did the author lay out school supplies in "Bittersweet"?
5. Who sits in the top bunk late at night in "Nine"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the mother's suicide attempts described in "Lens"?
2. What similes are described in "Other Lives"?
3. How does the author describe his parents in "Leaving the Lights On"?
4. What is described in "Dedication"? What simile is used to describe old papers?
5. What personification and metaphor is used in the poem "Stranded"?
6. How does the father feel in "Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten"? What irony is described?
7. How does the author use metaphor to describe the hitchhiker in "The Hitchhiker"?
8. How is the author's encounter described in "I, Myself"?
9. What does the author consider about her grief in "On the Suicide of a Young Boy I Did Not Know"?
10. What structural choices did the author make in "What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute"? Why?
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