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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: pages 22-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author find when he flees, trying to stay alone in "Simple Song of Being Oneself"?
(a) Truth and danger.
(b) Death and fear.
(c) Fortune and kindness.
(d) Lies and pain.

2. "Battleground State Park" is written by whom?
(a) Martha Christina.
(b) Vittorio Bodini.
(c) Philip Appleman.
(d) Dionisio D. Martinez.

3. In "The Ants Are Using Sticks For Walls," ten-year-old girls want to be how old?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 21.
(d) 14.

4. Where does Naomi Shihab Nye live?
(a) Salt Lake City, Utah.
(b) San Antonio, Texas.
(c) Pueblo, Colorado.
(d) Flagstaff, Arizona.

5. "Mother's Day" was written by whom?
(a) Lisa Ruth Shulman.
(b) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
(c) Daisy Zamora.
(d) Roger Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Ants Are Using Sticks For Walls"?

2. What is the coat lined with in "My Father's Coat"?

3. Who is the author of "and sometimes i hear this song in my head"?

4. What poem did Siv Cedering contribute to the collection?

5. In the Introduction by Naomi Shihab Nye, the author writes, "Losing makes us miserable, startles us awake. It's also" what?

(see the answer key)

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