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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. Where does the narrator of "That Kind of Marriage" sleep?

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

3. Who is the author of "my lost father"?

4. In "The Lost Glove Is Happy," the author is going where?

5. In "Autumn Quince," the promises that are never returned to are what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is described in the airport in "Going Home"?

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

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

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

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

6. How are the trees in "Plum Trees" personified? What metaphors are used?

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

8. What would be easier to understand in "Thinking of What the Jury is Deliberating" according to the author?

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

10. Where does the author see himself in "The Colors of Another Home"? What similes does he use in his description?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Compare and contrast the themes and structure of "The New Blade" and "Custody." How is family related in each poem?

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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