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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "Waking Instructions"?
(a) David Hassler.
(b) Harryette Mullen.
(c) Emma Mellon.
(d) Bill Meissner.

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

3. What can the author remember clearly of the children of his first grade class in "First Grade"?
(a) Their faces.
(b) Their handwriting.
(c) Their stories.
(d) Their names.

4. In "Sudden," the newspaper might have used the word "massive" if it had been a heart attack, but it used what instead?
(a) "Debilitating."
(b) "Enormous."
(c) "Suddenly."
(d) "Fatal."

5. In "Almost Evenly Divided," the author's life is nearly evenly divided between being Puerto-Rican and a what?
(a) Bostonian.
(b) San Franciscan.
(c) New Yorker.
(d) Chicagoan.

6. What gets lost in the dark in "Dedication"?
(a) A dog.
(b) A child.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Poems.

7. In what poem by David Williams were his ancestors were thrown away as if they were nothing?
(a) "Breath."
(b) "Silence."
(c) "Kind."
(d) "Driving."

8. In "This Isn't Fair," the author's beloved leaves the room when he asks if she loves him, but he calls her back frantically to give her what?
(a) An explanation.
(b) A ring.
(c) A poem.
(d) A book.

9. To whom is "What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute" dedicated?
(a) The Princess Takara.
(b) The Empress Saimei.
(c) The Empress Michiko.
(d) The Empress Gemmei.

10. Who is the author of "Bittersweet"?
(a) Nancy Mairs.
(b) Lavonne J. Adams.
(c) Harriet Jacobs.
(d) Emma Mellon.

11. In the Introduction by Naomi Shihab Nye, the author leaves what behind on an airplane?
(a) Her purse.
(b) Her neck pillow.
(c) Her watch.
(d) Her jacket.

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

13. Who wrote the poem "Dedication"?
(a) Sandra Gail Teichmann.
(b) Lisa Ruth Shulman.
(c) Martha Christina.
(d) Jim Natal.

14. Who does the author tell to write his name on everything that belongs to him in "What the Stones Knew"?
(a) His mother.
(b) His daugter.
(c) His wife.
(d) His son.

15. Who wrote "Emergency Situation"?
(a) Herberto Padilla.
(b) Barbara McCauley.
(c) Robert Dana.
(d) Hal Sirowitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Legend"?

2. In "Naming," the author has lost the meaning of words, but she still knows the meaning of sugar and what?

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

4. Who sits in the top bunk late at night in "Nine"?

5. In "Drifter, Owl, Mouse," the mouse prays inside what?

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