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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. What poem by Tony Hoagland is included in the collection?
(a) "The Question."
(b) "The Changeling."
(c) "Breath."
(d) "It Was Here."

2. In "Going Home," the author sees the addressee in where today?
(a) The airport.
(b) The bus station.
(c) The train station.
(d) Hailing a cab.

3. Where did the narrator find his ancestor's name in "Letter to an Ancestor"?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) A painting.
(c) A personal letter.
(d) A census book.

4. Who wrote "Ghazal (For William Stafford)"?
(a) Morton Marcus.
(b) Jay Bremyer.
(c) Mick Hatten.
(d) David Keefe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the poem "Insurance"?

2. Who is the author of "Secret of Life"?

3. In "What Came to Me," the author takes the last piece of what from a box?

4. Who do people curse in the poem "Avalanche"?

5. Who is the author of "Food. Music. Memory."?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is snow personified in "Avalanche"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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