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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) David B. Prather.
(b) Leroy V. Quintana.
(c) Ali Abunimah.
(d) Zymunt Frankel.

2. In "Divorce," the author wakes suddenly and hears what?
(a) Barking.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Crying.
(d) Scratching.

3. Who is the only person who lives in the town of "Benavides, Texas, 1906"?
(a) A grocer.
(b) A rancher.
(c) A farmer.
(d) A pilot.

4. In Rosellen Brown's untitled poem, who asks what friends are for?
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Grandmother.
(d) Uncle.

5. Who is the author of "Lament"?
(a) Ali Abunimah.
(b) David Keefe.
(c) Catherine Bowman.
(d) Nicanor Parra.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did the narrator find his ancestor's name in "Letter to an Ancestor"?

3. Who is the author of "Tough Ride"?

4. The author of "Father, Herald Me Home" asks her father to "reach across and pull me over the" what?

5. Where does the narrator of "That Kind of Marriage" sleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why had the author paid close attention to the heard in "Model of the Heart at the Franklin Institute"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who is described in the airport in "Going Home"?

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

10. "She had thought" describes what thoughts of the author's?

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