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Who or what stands on the highest level in “Constantly Risking Absurdity”?
a. Beauty
b. the poet
c. truth
Stream of consciousness is a narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character’s
a. mouth. b. heart. c. mind.
Of the following events, which was the last to happen in Granny Weatherall’s life?
a. Granny remembers that she needs to go through letters from George and John. b. Granny nurses the sick children.
c. Granny remembers that she didn’t send wine to Sister Borgia.
Feld’s epiphany in “The First Seven Years” probably leads him to acknowledge that
a. Education is not as important as love.
b. Miriam will make her own choices about her life.
c. His dreams of Miriam marrying Max will come true.
True or False: Robert Frost is the author of the quote “Whose woods these are I think I know. / His house is in the village though; / He will not see me stopping here / To watch his woods fill up with snow.”
a. True
b. False
Gabriel treats John worse than the other children in “The Rockpile” because
a. John needs to be taught to be careful.
b. John disobeys more than the others.
c. John is not his biological child.
What is the explorer seeking in “The Explorer”?
a. a path to follow in life
b. a specific person
c. a new place to live
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Identify the “I” in this passage from “Mirror:” “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.”
a. poet
b. lake
c. mirror
In “Filling Station,” the “somebody” of the poem is a person who contributes what to the life of the filling station?
a. manual labor on a par with the father and sons
b. small touches of beauty and caring
c. cooking and cleaning and household errands
True or False: Carl Sandburg is the author of the quote “Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half- / Naked, sweating, proud to be a Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, / Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler / to the Nation.”
a. True
b. False
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