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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. 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?
(a) On the chalkboard.
(b) On a tree.
(c) In the dirt.
(d) In the sand.

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

3. Who is the author of "and sometimes i hear this song in my head"?
(a) Martha Christina.
(b) Daisy Zamora.
(c) Harriet Jacobs.
(d) Lisa Brandenburg.

4. 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 wife.
(c) His daugter.
(d) His son.

5. In "This Isn't Fair," the author's beloved leaves the room when he asks if she loves him, but he calls her back frantically to give her what?
(a) An explanation.
(b) A book.
(c) A poem.
(d) A ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "That Was the Summer We Had Animals"?

2. "Today I'll Sit Still" is written by whom?

3. What does the author find when he flees, trying to stay alone in "Simple Song of Being Oneself"?

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

5. In what poem by David Williams were his ancestors were thrown away as if they were nothing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the author use metaphor to describe the hitchhiker in "The Hitchhiker"?

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

5. What is "Almost Evenly Divided" in the poem by this name?

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

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

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

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

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

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