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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 is punctuation in the air in the poem "Insurance"?

2. In "Food. Music. Memory." the author recalls shouting Scotch and what as the negative things?

3. Who is the author of "The Colors of Another Home"?

4. Who wrote "Model of the Heart at the Franklin Institute"?

5. What poem of Memye Curtis Tucker's is included in the collection?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. "She had thought" describes what thoughts of the author's?

6. How does the author recall his parents and sister in "Raised Violence"?

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

8. Who is the subject of "Work"? What does he think of?

9. What natural events are described in "Lament"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the structural elements of the poems "Breath" and "Bittersweet." What elements of repetition can be seen? What is the rhyme and meter of each?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the religious allusion and symbolism in "Shedding Skin" and "Invisibility." What do these poems have in common?

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