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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 "The Ants Are Using Sticks For Walls," ten-year-old girls want to be how old?

2. Who is the author of "The Wren"?

3. Who wrote the poem titled "Stranded"?

4. In "Child Proof," the author writes, "Child is proof We come from somewhere else Where everyone" what?

5. What kind of tree does the author climb in "Leaving the Light On"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author's mother give her in "The Ants Are Using Sticks For Walls"?

2. How does the author describe death in "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?

3. What similes are used to describe water in "Aqueducts"?

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

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

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

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

8. What is described in "Dedication"? What simile is used to describe old papers?

9. How does the father feel in "Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten"? What irony is described?

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

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

Discuss the themes of words and language in "Naming" and "Learning Persian." How do the authors of these poems use personification in language?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the similes and metaphors in "Lens." How is the author's mother described in the poem and why?

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