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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. Who wrote "A Game Nobody Won"?

2. Who wrote "Cannon Beach"?

3. Who wrote "My Grandmother Told Us Jokes"?

4. Who is the author going to visit in "The Lost Glove Is Happy"?

5. What is stolen from the author in "A Game Nobody Won"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is remembered in the poem "Words My Friend Can't Bring Himself to Say"?

2. How is the father described in the poem "Mindleaving"?

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

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

5. What leads up to the house in "Dream House"? What does the author wonder?

6. What is personified in "Processes"? How?

7. How is the body personified in "The Question"? Why?

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

9. How is snow personified in "Avalanche"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and describe the artwork in "What Have You Lost"? Who contributed the photographs in the book? How do the images serve to reflect the theme of loss?

Essay Topic 2

How is the sense of loss described in Chris Mahon's "This Isn't Fair"? What characters are in the poem and how are they described?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of grief in "On the Suicide of a Young Boy I Did Not Know." How is grief different in this poem than in others in the collection?

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