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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "What We Want," the author writes, "we all want to be lost, and looked for, and found again and welcomed home in the smoky darkness on any" what?

2. Who wrote "Legend"?

3. Who wrote "At Home"?

4. Who wrote "The Higher Reaches"?

5. Who wrote the poem, "So Far"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What structural choices did the author make in "What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute"? Why?

2. What was the world once filled with in "Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule"?

3. Why did the author's mother throw out his underwear in "Emergency Situation"?

4. What word did the newspaper use in "Sudden"? Why?

5. What is being searched for in "What We Want"? How are the people described?

6. What personification and metaphor is used in the poem "Stranded"?

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

8. What happens in the poem "David"? What images are described?

9. What similes are described in "Other Lives"?

10. What similes and metaphors are prevalent in "Custody"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the settings and characters in the poems "Insurance" and "She had thought." In what narrative voice is each poem written?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the themes in "Battleground State Park" and "Son, Skating." What is the setting of each poem? Who are the characters?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the imagery, symbolism and themes in "The New World." How does the author relate sexuality in this poem?

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