Creative Writing
Quiz # Three
Name _________________________
Class # _____ February 15, 2016
True (A) or False (B):
1.
_____ Michael Petracca says in “An Introduction to the Fictional Genres,” part two of
The Graceful Lie, says that Romance fiction is the most widely read and
voluminously produced genre of fiction today.
2.
_____ Petracca claims that because of the specific parameters demanded by publishers
of Romance novels, it is impossible for a an author to be truly write well within
that genre.
3.
_____ Petracca reveals in the introduction to his second part of The Graceful Lie that
many of the footnotes and references he has made in the first part of the book
were phony which he ties to the concept of “the hoax” in postmodern literature.
4.
_____ Gary Young’s poem which begins “He was drinking in the airport bar” describes
a man dealing with his guilt that when his plane’s engines set a fire the person he
thought about most was an old lover from years past.
5.
_____ Part of the intent of “Prose Poetry” is to remove some of the aura of exaltedness
which often exists around traditional poetry, so that the reader feels a greater
sense of comfort approaching a work.
6.
_____ In the "Most Dangerous Game" Rainsford is not caught at the end of the first day
because General Zaroff chooses not to finish the hunt but to instead prolong his
sport.
6.
_____ The protagonist of “Tall Tales From the Mekong Delta” has never been involved
with any elements of the dark side of life before meeting Lenny, no drugs no sex.
7.
_____ In “Tall Tales From the Mekong Delta” Lenny is a better observer of things about
him than the story’s protagonist.
8.
_____ The speaker in “My Last Duchess” is still so consumed with grief over his last
wife that he has resolved never to marry again.
9.
_____ In "Porphyria's Lover" the speaker is Porphyria's murderer.
10.
_____ In the short story “Cathedral” the protagonist has had a close relationship with the
secondary character of the story for years.
11.
_____ In the prose poem “A pretty woman is showing me how to complete a form”
Killarmey Clary’s speaker brings up no details about he form at all.
Name __________________
Quiz 3
April 2, 2009
True (A) or False (B) Continued:
12.
_____ In "The Affair at Coulter's Notch" there is suspicion among the subordinates of
the general that there was no need to place a single cannon in “Coulter’s Notch”
Multiple Choice: Choose the Best answer:
13.
_____ In “Tall Tales From the Mekong Delta” what color stands out as especially
important in descriptions? (A) yellow, (B) red, (B) green (D) blue
14.
_____ In the Prose Poem “Father Father What Have You Done?” the man has done
what? (A) killed himself, (B) destroyed his house, (C) burned down his church,
(D) sold his precious books to pay for his daughter’s musical instrument.
15.
______The major difference between a traditional poem and a “prose poem” is (A) the
reader can scan a traditional poem, (B) prose poems tell stories while traditional
poems do not, (C) prose poems do not use the ornamental appearance of poetry,
(D) prose poems do not require the close reading that traditional poetry does.
16.
_____ In the prose poem which begins “There was a dead space behind an upstairs wall”
the speaker is afraid of (A) accidentally setting fire to his home, (B) empty holes
in the ground, (C) the growing silence within his home, (D) floods.
17.
_____ In “Tall Tales From the Mekong Delta” by Kate Braverman, the main character is
a (A) teacher, (B) librarian, (C) writer, (D) Both A and C.
18.
_____ From what malady does the secondary character in “Cathedral” suffer?
(A) Blindness, (B) Deafness, (C) Cerebalpaulsy, (D) Asberger's Syndrome
19.
_____ In which war is "The Affair at Coulter's Notch” set? (A) Revolutionary War.
(B) Civil War, (C) World War I, (D) World War II
20.
_____ Where is the cathedral which the narrator of “Cathedral” and the main secondary
character share? (A) in France, (B) on a television documentary, (C) on a piece of
paper, (D) in a book.