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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What disgusts Louise Gluck on the beach?
(a) A dead bird.
(b) The heat.
(c) The smell of the ocean.
(d) Women's bodies.

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

4. What does Kennedy say is the same in each stage of life?
(a) They bring pain.
(b) They are not what we expect.
(c) They last too long.
(d) They pass to fast.

5. In A Poem of Friendship, what do friends not need in order to love each other?
(a) History.
(b) Sex.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Robert Frost scare away?

2. What is being written to in Letters from Storyville?

3. How is this book separated?

4. Who wrote Hero and Lysander?

5. What kind of poet was David Lehman?

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