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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 13: pages 142-151.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's son in "Tough Ride"?
(a) Dennis.
(b) David.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Joshua.

2. Who wrote "Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten"?
(a) Harryette Mullen.
(b) William Trowbridge.
(c) Anzar Hitoshi.
(d) Herberto Padilla.

3. Who is the author of "Lens"?
(a) Ken Fontenot.
(b) Kimberly J. Brown.
(c) Hayan Charara.
(d) Tom Absher.

4. In "Passing Necessity," the author is humbled by hearing the first few bars of what song?
(a) Brahms's Hungarian Dances.
(b) Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto.
(c) Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
(d) Chopin's Scherzo in B minor.

5. Who is the author of "Lament"?
(a) Catherine Bowman.
(b) David Keefe.
(c) Ali Abunimah.
(d) Nicanor Parra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Naming"?

2. In "Hitchhiker," the author sees a hitchhiker on the edge of town that is a pupil who stayed late after school to write loneliness and love where?

3. Who is the author of "My Valhalla"?

4. Who is the author of "The Colors of Another Home"?

5. Who wrote "Almost Evenly Divided"?

(see the answer key)

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