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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase is italicized in the poem "Next, Please"?
(a) Till then.
(b) How slow they are!
(c) Right to the last.
(d) But we are wrong.

2. In the poem "Toads," what does the toad represent?
(a) Old men.
(b) Work.
(c) The animal, the toad.
(d) Ungracious people.

3. In the poem "Waiting for Breakfast," what is the female character doing?
(a) Reading the newspaper.
(b) Turning on the stove.
(c) Making toast.
(d) Brushing her hair.

4. In the poem "Reference Back," what is the narrator doing?
(a) Visiting his hometown.
(b) Thinking about high school.
(c) Reading at the library.
(d) Playing records.

5. In the poem "Faith Healing," what phrase in italics is repeated?
(a) Dear child.
(b) Like losing thoughts.
(c) Exiled.
(d) What's wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "I Put My Mouth," what does the narrator tell the stream and wind they will not find?

2. What pleases the narrator in the poem "Church Going"?

3. In the poem "Pour Away That Youth," what fear is expressed?

4. In the poem "Deceptions," what does the ruined woman in the epigraph claim?

5. In the poem "The Large Cool Store," what does the store sell?

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