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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 kind of poet is Gregory Corso?
(a) A Romantic Poet.
(b) A Revolutionary Poet.
(c) A New World Poet.
(d) A Beat Generation Poet.

2. How is the ritual in Hairwashing described by the daughter?
(a) Strange.
(b) Uplifting.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Pointless.

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

4. Who wrote I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)?
(a) E.E. Cummings.
(b) Christopher Marlowe.
(c) Andrew Marvel.
(d) Lord Byron.

5. Kennedy says marriage is the foundation of ___________.
(a) Society.
(b) Peace.
(c) Government.
(d) Families.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Caroline say her aunts wanted to look like?

2. What does Kennedy say nobody wants to be?

3. What is traded for knowledge in You Begin?

4. On whom does Kennedy say her grandmother focused her attention?

5. What does Sylvia Plath lose in Face Lift?

(see the answer key)

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