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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. What poem by Haas H. Mroue is included in the collection?

2. Who wrote "Emergency Situation"?

3. When did the author lay out school supplies in "Bittersweet"?

4. Who wrote "What the Stones Knew"?

5. In "Hitchhiker," the author sees a hitchhiker on the edge of town that is a pupil who stayed late after school to write loneliness and love where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "Almost Evenly Divided" in the poem by this name?

2. How are the people described in the poem "and sometimes i hear this song in my head"?

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

4. What question is the author asked in "First Grade"? What is the meaning?

5. How is the "beloved" described in the poem "This Isn't Fair"?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the theme of isolation in "Divorce" and "Where on This Earth." What symbolism and imagery do the authors employ in the works?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the use of personification and imagery in "What the Stones Knew." What is personified in the poem and why?

Essay Topic 3

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

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