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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Amy Clampitt, Dave Smith, Marilyn Hacker, William Matthews, and Sharon Olds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a main theme in Amy Clampitt's work?
(a) Death.
(b) God.
(c) Morality.
(d) Self.

2. Which poet wrote about the "domestic self?"
(a) Hollander.
(b) Levine.
(c) Sexton.
(d) Kinnell.

3. Dave Smith has developed a poetic voice often referred to as the ____ self.
(a) Distorted.
(b) Repressed.
(c) Inner.
(d) Second.

4. Which of the poets was a high school football star?
(a) Schuyler.
(b) Dickey.
(c) Moss.
(d) Hecht.

5. Schuyler compares poetry to which of the following?
(a) Constellations.
(b) Birth.
(c) Painting.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marilyn Hacker spends six months of the year in New York; the other six months in _____.

2. Philip Levine was born in which Midwestern city?

3. Which of the poets wrote a piece titled, "Einstein's Bathrobe?"

4. Which poem was written for a survivor of Hiroshima?

5. How old was Amy Clampitt when her first book was published?

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