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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 is the author of "Waking Instructions"?
(a) Harryette Mullen.
(b) Emma Mellon.
(c) David Hassler.
(d) Bill Meissner.

2. Who does the author meet at a crossroads in "I Myself"?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His father.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) Himself.

3. "Battleground State Park" is written by whom?
(a) Philip Appleman.
(b) Martha Christina.
(c) Dionisio D. Martinez.
(d) Vittorio Bodini.

4. In "Naming," the author has lost the meaning of words, but she still knows the meaning of sugar and what?
(a) Flour.
(b) Pine needle.
(c) Spices.
(d) Salt.

5. In "Stranded," the beloved's name drips from the author's what?
(a) Chin.
(b) Eyelashes.
(c) Nose.
(d) Ear.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is "What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute" dedicated?

2. In "Aqueducts," the author imagines the aqueducts where?

3. In "What We Want," the author writes, "we all want to be lost, and looked for, and found again and welcomed home in the smoky darkness on any" what?

4. What kind of tree does the author climb in "Leaving the Light On"?

5. Who wrote the poem "Nine"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the author write about her choice to collect these poems in the Introduction?

8. What does the author consider about her grief in "On the Suicide of a Young Boy I Did Not Know"?

9. What question is the author asked in "First Grade"? What is the meaning?

10. What did the author's mother give her in "The Ants Are Using Sticks For Walls"?

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