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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Emily Dickinson's tone in her poem about breaking up?
(a) Ambivalent.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Upset.
(d) Happy.

3. Whom does Caroline say her aunts wanted to look like?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Their brothers.
(c) Their mother.
(d) The movie actresses.

4. Where does the woman in I'm Going to Georgia want to live?
(a) A mansion.
(b) A coffin.
(c) A hotel.
(d) A cabin.

5. How does Kennedy describe the relationship women have with beauty?
(a) Frustrating.
(b) Prosaic.
(c) Complicated.
(d) Natural.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kennedy describe having children?

2. In A Type of Loss, what does the woman lose when she breaks up?

3. What does the person in Song want their lover to stop doing?

4. What happens in each stanza of Nobody Knows But Mother?

5. Who wrote Corrina's Going A Maying?

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