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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does W.H. Auden say we must do whether we look or not?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Leap.
(c) Love.
(d) All of these.

2. Who wrote Hero and Lysander?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) E.E. Cummings.
(c) Christopher Marlowe.
(d) W. W. Phelps.

3. What does Kennedy say defines a mother's character?
(a) How her spouse treats her.
(b) How her children turn out.
(c) How she responds to solitude.
(d) How religious she is.

4. What does St. Teresa of Avila say will give people freedom?
(a) Forgetting the past.
(b) Helping others.
(c) Love of man.
(d) Faith in God.

5. When does Emily Dickinson say the most solemn industry happens?
(a) The cimax of sickness.
(b) The death bed.
(c) The morning after death.
(d) The hour of deliverance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of imagery is used in The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?

2. What color is the flower in The Weather Cock Points South?

3. What does Christina Rossetti compare her heart to?

4. When was Roger McGough with Monika?

5. What kind of poet was David Lehman?

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