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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was A.R. Ammons field of study in college?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Music.

2. Ammons favored which style?
(a) Haiku.
(b) Epigram.
(c) Quatrain.
(d) Limmerick.

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

4. Which of the poets wrote a piece titled, "The Sheep Child?"
(a) Van Duyn.
(b) Moss.
(c) Dickey.
(d) Hecht.

5. Duncan was linked to the _______ poets.
(a) Black Mountain.
(b) Greenwich Village.
(c) Post Modern.
(d) Ancient Greek.

6. Which of the poets wrote a piece titled, "Frederick Douglass?"
(a) Olson.
(b) Hayden.
(c) Cunningham.
(d) Garrigue.

7. Robert Penn Warren is said to have written poetry in a _____ style.
(a) Mercenary.
(b) Minimalist.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Metaphysical.

8. Where is the Jain Bird Hospital located?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Prague.
(c) Delhi.
(d) Moscow.

9. Mona Van Duyn taught at which St. Louis based university?
(a) Washington University.
(b) St. Louis University.
(c) University of Missouri.
(d) Howard University.

10. Which of the poets had a Hasidic Russian rabbi for a father?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Bowers.
(c) Kizer.
(d) Levertov.

11. Richard Hugo taught at which university?
(a) University of Iowa.
(b) University of Wisconsin.
(c) University of Idaho.
(d) University of Montana.

12. Richard Hugo grew up in which western US city?
(a) Reno.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Eugene.
(d) Santa Barbara.

13. Ammons considered himself to be a part of which spiritual movement?
(a) Fundamental Christian.
(b) Hindu.
(c) Transcendentalist.
(d) Buddhist.

14. Merrill moved back to the US in which year?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1961,
(d) 1974.

15. "The Tourist from Syracuse" was inspired by the writing of which author?
(a) Mackey.
(b) MacDonald.
(c) Miller.
(d) Mailer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words is not used in reference to Howard Nemerov's work?

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

3. In what year did O'Hara die?

4. "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" discusses what type of mine?

5. Which city was the center of the great poetry Renaissance?

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