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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 "Model of the Heart at the Franklin Institute"?

2. Who wrote the poem "Work"?

3. Who do people curse in the poem "Avalanche"?

4. Who is the only person who lives in the town of "Benavides, Texas, 1906"?

5. Who wrote "What Came to Me"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author give back in "I Give You Back"? What is personified?

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

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

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

6. What things does the author describe seeing in "My Valhalla"?

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

8. What simile is used to describe the father's hand in "The Memory Prayer"? What does the lightning do?

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

10. What is the glove compared to in "The Lost Glove Is Happy"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the theme of sorrow in "Sudden" and "Seeing for You." How do these poems relate in terms of symbolism and imagery?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of self-identity in the poems "Waking Instructions" and "I, Myself." What symbolism and imagery is used to reinforce this theme?

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