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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 "Waking Up in the Morning"?
(a) Leroy V. Quintana.
(b) Ali Abunimah.
(c) David B. Prather.
(d) Zymunt Frankel.

2. Who wrote the poem "Work"?
(a) Geoff Ripps.
(b) Nuala Archer.
(c) Fran Castan.
(d) Jay Bremyer.

3. The poem "Christmas" is written by whom?
(a) Susan V. Meyers.
(b) Jane Hirshfield.
(c) San Le.
(d) Lan Se.

4. Who had shown the author how to play hide and seek in "Words My Friend Can't Bring Himself to Say"?
(a) Miss Betty.
(b) Miss Emily.
(c) Miss Patty.
(d) Miss Becky.

5. "Autumn Quince" was written by whom?
(a) Morton Marcus.
(b) Catherine Bowman.
(c) Nicanor Parra.
(d) Jane Hirshfield.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the poem titled "Divorce"?

2. Who wrote "The Memory Prayer"?

3. Who wrote "What Was Once Reached For"?

4. In "Avalanche," the snow creates the belief that everything has a what?

5. Who is the author of "Letter to an Ancestor"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would be easier to understand in "Thinking of What the Jury is Deliberating" according to the author?

2. What does Jane Hirshfield personify in her poem of the collection?

3. What simile is used to describe the father's hand in "The Memory Prayer"? What does the lightning do?

4. What is the household like in the poem "That Kind of Marriage"?

5. What does the performer do after leaving the stage in "The Mentalist Leaves the Stage"?

6. What simile describes the umbrella in "What Was Once Reached For"? What is the setting of the poem?

7. How is the father described in the poem "Mindleaving"?

8. Who is the subject of "Work"? What does he think of?

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

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

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