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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up and Growing Old.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Summer Day?
(a) Mary Oliver.
(b) Julia Avarez.
(c) Edna St. Vincent Millay.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

2. What does Sylvia Plath lose in Face Lift?
(a) Her age.
(b) Her identity.
(c) Her confidence.
(d) Her wisdom.

3. What is the awkward encounter described by Gregory Corso in Marriage?
(a) Finding about infidelity.
(b) Meeting the in-laws.
(c) Having children.
(d) Meeting a more attractive sibling.

4. Who asked the question, What do Women Want?
(a) Freud.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) God.
(d) Shakespeare.

5. Who is described in the first poem of the section on beauty?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Jackie Kennedy.
(c) Mary Magdalene.
(d) Cleopatra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kennedy say nobody wants to be?

2. What literary device is used heavily in To Margo?

3. What is traded for knowledge in You Begin?

4. What choices does Kennedy say are the most important?

5. What does Rudyard Kipling say over and over about The Female of The Species?

(see the answer key)

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