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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Torn Down From Glory Daily" draws a parallel between animal hunger and ______.
(a) Human instinct.
(b) Survival of the fittest.
(c) Human sexuality.
(d) Uncommon friendships.

2. "Music Swims Back To Me" is a reflection on the speaker's immersion in what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Medical interventions.
(c) Mental collapse.
(d) Family.

3. What is the speaker addicted to in "The Addict"?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Prescription pills.
(d) Self-mutilation.

4. Who does the speaker encounter on a ferry in "Letter Written On a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound"?
(a) A priest.
(b) Nuns.
(c) A clown.
(d) A childhood friend.

5. In what year did the author receive an award for Live or Die?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1966.

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

7. How many parts is "The Double Image" divided into?
(a) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

8. What is the sister poem to "The Double Image"?
(a) "The Moss of His Skin."
(b) "The Division of Parts."
(c) "Torn Down From Glory Daily."
(d) "A Story For Rose On the Midnight Flight To Boston."

9. The poem "You, Doctor Martin" puts the reader where?
(a) In Taft Cemetery and Memorial Gardens.
(b) Into the author's surgical suite.
(c) Into Bedlam.
(d) In her empty home.

10. What is the subject of "Those Times"?
(a) Mental illness.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Sexual abuse.
(d) Death.

11. What is the purpose of poetry in "The Black Art"?
(a) Companion.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Catharsis.
(d) Spiritual mentor.

12. Who is Doctor Martin?
(a) A hospice doctor.
(b) An oncologist.
(c) A friend of the author's.
(d) A psychotherapist.

13. Who does the author decide to endure the pains of life for in the last poem in Live or Die?
(a) Her poetry.
(b) Herself.
(c) Her parents.
(d) The people she loves most.

14. In what point of view is "It Is a Spring Afternoon" written?
(a) Second-person.
(b) First-person.
(c) It is unclear.
(d) Third-person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion does the speaker come to in "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"?

2. Who bathes in the river in "It Is a Spring Afternoon"?

3. What is the subject of the author's first book of poetry?

4. What is the title of the author's first book of poetry?

5. "Music Swims Back To Me" presents an irony of the freedom where?

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