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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Motherhood.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yeats fear in A Cradle Song?
(a) The loss of innocence.
(b) Losing his child to death.
(c) Losing his wife to his child.
(d) The responsibility of having a child.

2. How many levels of meaning are in The Weather Cock Points South?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

3. What does the woman in The Philosopher wonder about?
(a) How to get this man to love her.
(b) Where this man went to in his heart.
(c) Shy she continues to love this man.
(d) How to break up with this man.

4. To what does Linda Pastan compare babies?
(a) Beets.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Birds.
(d) Trees.

5. What does Emily Dickinson compare herself to?
(a) A bee.
(b) A boat.
(c) A bird.
(d) A barge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote June Light?

2. How long is Emily Dickinson's poem about breaking up?

3. What kind of poet was Christina Rossetti?

4. What does Dorothy Parker warn women of vowing?

5. What is the woman in May I Feel Said He worried about?

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