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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Today I'll Sit Still" is written by whom?
(a) Jack Myers.
(b) Jimmy Santiago Baca.
(c) Hayan Charara.
(d) Ernesto Trejo.

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

3. Who wrote "What the Stones Knew"?
(a) Harryette Mullen.
(b) Lisa Ruth Shulman.
(c) Anzar Hitoshi.
(d) Robert Dana.

4. 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?
(a) In the dirt.
(b) On a tree.
(c) In the sand.
(d) On the chalkboard.

5. What poem by Peter Sears is included in the collection?
(a) "Silence."
(b) "The Question."
(c) "The Mentalist Leaves the Stage."
(d) "Breath."

Short Answer Questions

1. "Mother's Day" was written by whom?

2. In "Waking Instructions," the author writes that one should allow oneself to be different, but it will feel like falling attached to what?

3. Who wrote the poem "Dedication"?

4. Who wrote the poem "Nine"?

5. Who wrote "First Grade"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author use metaphor to describe the hitchhiker in "The Hitchhiker"?

2. How are the mother's suicide attempts described in "Lens"?

3. What is described in "Dedication"? What simile is used to describe old papers?

4. What similes are used to describe water in "Aqueducts"?

5. How does the author describe death in "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?

6. What word did the newspaper use in "Sudden"? Why?

7. What is being searched for in "What We Want"? How are the people described?

8. How is the author's encounter described in "I, Myself"?

9. What did the author's mother give her in "The Ants Are Using Sticks For Walls"?

10. What happens in the poem "David"? What images are described?

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