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

2. Who wrote "What We Want"?
(a) Lucille Clifton.
(b) Vern Rutsala.
(c) Maggie Anderson.
(d) Vickie Karp.

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

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

5. Who is the author of "Song of the Prodigal Son"?
(a) Anzar Hitoshi.
(b) Angel Gonzales.
(c) Herberto Padilla.
(d) Joy Harjo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Legend"?

2. Who wrote "The Father, Who Could Not Swim"?

3. Who wrote "The Higher Reaches"?

4. What poem did Leonard Nathan write in the collection?

5. Who is the author of "The New Blade"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What personification and metaphor is used in the poem "Stranded"?

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

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

7. What is "Almost Evenly Divided" in the poem by this name?

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

9. What similes and metaphors are prevalent in "Custody"?

10. What similes are described in "Other Lives"?

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