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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 mother.
(b) His son.
(c) His wife.
(d) His daugter.

2. Who wrote "At Home"?
(a) Vittorio Bodini.
(b) Jack Ridl.
(c) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
(d) Linda Gregg.

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

4. Who wrote "Legend"?
(a) Philip Appleman.
(b) Bruce Bennett.
(c) Craig Czury.
(d) Ben Judson.

5. Who wrote the poem, "So Far"?
(a) Kimberly J. Brown.
(b) Naomi Shihab Nye.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) Maggie Anderson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Donna Leed's untitled poem talks of how she never saw the road between her house and her grandmother's house why?

2. Who wrote "First Grade"?

3. 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?

4. Who is the author of "Song of the Prodigal Son"?

5. In "Naming," the author has lost the meaning of words, but she still knows the meaning of sugar and what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How are the people described in the poem "and sometimes i hear this song in my head"?

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

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

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