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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How to Live.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is traded for dolls in Puberty--With Capital Letters?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Friends.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Aging.

3. Who wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
(a) William Yeats.
(b) Christopher Marlowe.
(c) E.E. Cummings.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. Whom does Seamus Haney write to in In Memoriam MKH (1911-1984)?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His wife.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.

5. Who wrote We Know This Much?
(a) Caroline Kennedy.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Sylvia PLath.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person in Keeping Things Whole realize when he is alone?

2. What is Hero and Leander?

3. Who is described in the first poem of the section on beauty?

4. What does Nikki Giovanni say is the most important part of friendship?

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

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