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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Roger McGough with Monika?
(a) The winter.
(b) The spring.
(c) The summer.
(d) The fall.

2. Who wrote Cosmetics Do No Good?
(a) Steve Kowit.
(b) Richard Wilbur.
(c) Frued.
(d) Shakespeare.

3. What was a joy to the mother in Night Waitress?
(a) Getting home to a sleeping house.
(b) Knowing her children would do more than her.
(c) Being flirted with.
(d) Putting out bright underwear to dry.

4. What kind of poet was Yeats?
(a) Renassance.
(b) Traditional.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Contemporary.

5. What does Dorothy Parker warn women of vowing?
(a) Endless Passion.
(b) Eternal Love.
(c) Attraction at all ages.
(d) Fidelity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is steady throughout The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?

2. Who wrote Keeping Things Whole?

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

4. Why is it surprising that the poet wrote Song?

5. What game does Sharon Olds play in Socks?

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