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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the man in Corrina's Going a Maying so urgent?
(a) He wants to get married.
(b) He is sick.
(c) Spring is dying.
(d) His lover is sick.

2. What doe Lady Mary Chudleigh tell women not to do?
(a) Try to be like their parents.
(b) Become subservient to their husbands.
(c) Go to bed angry.
(d) Put themselves before their husbands.

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

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

5. Whom does Kennedy talk about in the introduction to the section about beauty?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) Her best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do most of the men work in Night Waitress?

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

3. Why does the person in We Know This Much know that death is not a good thing?

4. Why can't Bernadette Mayer buy her friend what she wants?

5. Who asked the question, What do Women Want?

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