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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Shedding Skin"?
(a) Harryette Mullen.
(b) Nancy Mairs.
(c) Linda Gregg.
(d) Maggie Anderson.

2. What is the coat lined with in "My Father's Coat"?
(a) Fish scales.
(b) Dog hair.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Feathers.

3. In "The New World," the author stared at the sculpture on the front lawn of what museum?
(a) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(b) The Guggenheim Museum.
(c) The Museum of Scince and Indusrtry.
(d) The Montclair Art Museum.

4. 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) A poem.
(b) An explanation.
(c) A book.
(d) A ring.

5. Who sits in the top bunk late at night in "Nine"?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Benjamin.
(c) Robert.
(d) Michael.

6. Who wrote the poem titled "Sudden"?
(a) Jack Myers.
(b) Naomi Shihab Nye.
(c) Nick Flynn.
(d) Vern Rutsala.

7. Who wrote "Legend"?
(a) Philip Appleman.
(b) Craig Czury.
(c) Bruce Bennett.
(d) Ben Judson.

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

9. Who is the author of the poem "I Myself"?
(a) Hal Sirowitz.
(b) Angel Gonzales.
(c) Anzar Hitoshi.
(d) Robert Dana.

10. Who wrote the poem "Nine"?
(a) Lavonne J. Adams.
(b) Dionisio D. Martinez.
(c) Amy Adams.
(d) Harryette Mullen.

11. 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 names.
(d) Their stories.

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) Inevitable.
(d) Sometimes fatal.

13. Who is the author of "The Wren"?
(a) Barbara McCauley.
(b) Emma Mellon.
(c) Linda Gregg.
(d) Dionisio D. Martinez.

14. 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.

15. Who wrote "Hitchhiker"?
(a) James Baker Hall.
(b) Jimmy Santiago Baca.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) Jack Ridl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Family Car"?

2. In "Travelling Light," the author wants "nothing more anymore only wind stroking waves onto" what?

3. In "Child Proof," the author writes, "Child is proof We come from somewhere else Where everyone" what?

4. "Today I'll Sit Still" is written by whom?

5. Who wrote "What the Stones Knew"?

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