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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. What brought about early bedtime in Grown-up?
(a) Sickness.
(b) Tantrums.
(c) The sun.
(d) Father.

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

3. What is steady throughout The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
(a) The beat.
(b) All of these.
(c) The rhyming scheme.
(d) The intent.

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

5. Who wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) E.E. Cummings.
(c) Christopher Marlowe.
(d) William Yeats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in the first poem of the section on beauty?

2. What does Richard Wilbur realize his woman wants in The Catch?

3. What is the first step toward adulthood in You Begin?

4. What is the deepest secret shared in I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)?

5. Kennedy says marriage is the foundation of ___________.

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