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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Students writing about a journey should end up where?
(a) Back in class.
(b) An unknown destination.
(c) Anywhere it is cold.
(d) Home.

2. In Maura Stanton's section, which act is recalled?
(a) Flying.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Horseback Riding.
(d) Dreaming.

3. Dreams offer what kind of poetic source?
(a) Prophetic.
(b) Vivid.
(c) Limited.
(d) Inexhaustible.

4. In "Dramatic Monologue: Carving the Voice, Carving the Masks," students are instructed to write a:
(a) Series of poems.
(b) Chatauqua.
(c) Soliloquy.
(d) Dramatic monologue.

5. Stanton encourages what emotion?
(a) Serenity.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Melancholy.

6. "Our Suits, Ourselves" asks students to compare themselves with:
(a) An inanimate object.
(b) A cloud.
(c) Their parents.
(d) A tree.

7. Where did the scene with the handkerchief take place?
(a) New York.
(b) On a train.
(c) In Mother's Kitchen.
(d) Las Vegas.

8. Students are required to avoid what item in their work?
(a) Common words.
(b) Antonyms.
(c) Flowery language.
(d) Cliches.

9. How many exercises are included in "The Things of This World: Image and Metaphor?"
(a) 9.
(b) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) 6.

10. In this section, students are asked to write from whose point of view?
(a) Dog.
(b) Tree.
(c) Child.
(d) Elderly person.

11. The author claims that poems created in this way will be:
(a) Telling and creative.
(b) Varied and significant.
(c) Traumatic and deep.
(d) Vivid and transparent.

12. "Voice" can also mean:
(a) Parts of speech.
(b) Sound.
(c) Tone of a poem.
(d) Individual personality.

13. How long do students have to draw their initial image?
(a) 3 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 5 minutes.

14. Maura Stanton's character hates what object?
(a) Water.
(b) Mud.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Airplanes.

15. In "Estrangement and Reconciliation," with whom does the student argue?
(a) Mother.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Self.
(d) Classmate.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Our Suits, Ourselves" is considered to be:

2. How many exercises are appropriate for group work?

3. How many journal entries are to be used for comparison?

4. "As/Like/Finish the Sentence" requires students to write:

5. Who wrote "Dramatic Monologue: Carving the Voice, Carving the Masks?"

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