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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person in Song want their lover to stop doing?
(a) Putting on airs.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Getting their hopes up.
(d) Looking for more.

2. Who introduces each section?
(a) The editor.
(b) The cupid.
(c) The poet.
(d) The historian.

3. What was broken in Protocols?
(a) Fidelity.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Love.
(d) Friendship.

4. What helped Kennedy deal with the losses in her life?
(a) Religion.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Nature.
(d) Friends.

5. What does Kennedy say about her own experience as a mother?
(a) It was not at all what she imagined.
(b) It is the best thing that ever happened to her.
(c) It was something she never saw for herself.
(d) It was the most rewarding path she could have taken.

Short Answer Questions

1. In To My Dear and Loving Husband, how does the woman hope to stay with her husband after death?

2. How does Elizabeth Barrett Browning say we should suffer grief?

3. What does the woman in The Eaten Heart swear to never do again at the end of the poem?

4. Where does the man in June Light hear his lover's voice from?

5. What happens to George Santayana after the death of his wife?

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