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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 "What Came to Me"?
(a) Robert Phillips.
(b) Jay Bremyer.
(c) Cathy Song.
(d) Jane Kenyon.

2. In "Each Night," images in dreams flash and fade in these darkened walls, and the author wants to climb into what?
(a) A spaceship.
(b) The story.
(c) A car.
(d) Bed.

3. In "How Forgetting Works in Late Winter," mounds of snow exhale under the what?
(a) Blue sky.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Pines.

4. What is an artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

5. In "The Lost Glove Is Happy," the author is going where?
(a) Phoenix, Arizona.
(b) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(c) Lubbock, Texas.
(d) Salt Lake City, Utah.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "I Give You Back," the author writes "so you can no longer keep me naked and ____ in the winter"?

2. Who is the author of "My Valhalla"?

3. Who is the author going to visit in "The Lost Glove Is Happy"?

4. Who wrote "Waking Up in the Morning"?

5. In "Going Home," the author sees the addressee in where today?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the trees in "Plum Trees" personified? What metaphors are used?

2. How is snow personified in "Avalanche"?

3. What natural events are described in "Lament"?

4. How is the body personified in "The Question"? Why?

5. What is the glove compared to in "The Lost Glove Is Happy"?

6. What does the author consider about his ancestor in "Letter to an Ancestor"?

7. What does the person conclude the secret of life is in "Secret of Life"?

8. What does the author give back in "I Give You Back"? What is personified?

9. Who is remembered in the poem "Words My Friend Can't Bring Himself to Say"?

10. How does the author recall his parents and sister in "Raised Violence"?

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