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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Death Notebooks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is "For the Year of the Insane" directed to?
(a) John Hughes.
(b) Ted Hughes.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

2. What is the purpose of the first poem in Transformations?
(a) To share a fairy tale about the author's daughter.
(b) To share a fairy tale about the author's son.
(c) To create the author as the wicked witch.
(d) To act as an introduction and explanation.

3. What is particularly depicted in "God's Backside"?
(a) A flood.
(b) Cold weather.
(c) Hot weather.
(d) A fire.

4. What does Doctor Faustus sell his soul to the devil for in "Faustus and I"?
(a) Knowledge and power.
(b) Money and fame.
(c) Health and family.
(d) Eternal youth.

5. How are the poems arranged in Live or Die?
(a) The order in which they were written.
(b) Randomly.
(c) Alphabetically.
(d) In an order selected by the author's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker cast off in the poem "Self in 1958"?

2. What award was given to the author for Live or Die?

3. Where does the title for the first poem in Live or Die come from?

4. Who is an outcast in "One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes"?

5. What is the last story in Transformations?

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