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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Lover in Song of Solomon feed upon?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Love.
(c) Sex.
(d) Lilies.

3. What literary device is used heavily in To Margo?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Irony.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Cacauphony.

4. How does Sharon Olds feel about her son in Socks?
(a) She resents him.
(b) She is afraid of him.
(c) She loves him.
(d) She regrets having him.

5. How does E.E. Cummings describe love?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Ambivalent.
(d) Frantic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the fruit in June Light?

2. What does Kennedy say about her own experience as a mother?

3. Who wrote June Light?

4. What does the man in To His Mistress Going to Bed say a woman needs to cover her at night?

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

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