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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Awful Rowing Toward God.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of accident is the subject of "Pain for a Daughter"?
(a) Carriage.
(b) Horseback riding.
(c) Train.
(d) Car.

2. What is the title of the first part of The Book of Folly?
(a) "Part the First."
(b) "Twenty Poems."
(c) "The Jesus Papers."
(d) "Thirty Poems."

3. How many poems are in Part 2 of the author's first book of poetry?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Seven.

4. "With Mercy For the Greedy" is a rebuttal to a friend's suggestion that the speaker should seek what?
(a) Holy confession.
(b) Solace from the Blessed Mother.
(c) The counsel of a priest.
(d) Eucharistic Adoration.

5. What does "Elizabeth Gone" explore as the possibility of an escape?
(a) Parenthood.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Education.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Hex" describes the connection between the speaker's inability to appreciate happiness and her relationship to who?

2. "Hansel and Gretel" is about whose wild obsession?

3. "The Death of Fathers" and "Angels of the Love Affair" are both comprised of _____ shorter poems.

4. In what year was The Death Notebooks published?

5. Whose quote inspired The Awful Rowing Toward God?

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