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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12: pages 133-141.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Simile.
(d) Personification.

2. Who is the author of "The Family Car"?
(a) Teresa Palomo Acosta.
(b) Tom Absher.
(c) Jenny Browne.
(d) Kimberly J. Brown.

3. In the Introduction by Naomi Shihab Nye, the author writes, "Losing makes us miserable, startles us awake. It's also" what?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) A chance to learn.
(c) Sometimes fatal.
(d) Part of the game.

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

5. Who wrote the poem "Sister"?
(a) Ali Abunimah.
(b) Andy Young.
(c) Sekine Hiroshi.
(d) Catherine Bowman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Higher Reaches," a man gloats that soon he will have nothing to say and will what?

2. Who is the author of "The Wren"?

3. In "Sudden," the newspaper might have used the word "massive" if it had been a heart attack, but it used what instead?

4. What poem by Peter Sears is included in the collection?

5. Who wrote the poem, "So Far"?

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