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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it surprising that the poet wrote Song?
(a) Most of their poems are dark.
(b) Most of their poems are in German.
(c) Most of their poems are very long.
(d) Most of their poems are couplets.

2. Who wrote The Weather Cock Points South?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Amy Lowell.
(c) Louisa May Alcott.
(d) Virginia Wolf.

3. In The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, the countess says she was wounded with __________.
(a) Love.
(b) Passion.
(c) Time.
(d) Infidelity.

4. In Jamesian, what could the couple communicate?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Their children.
(c) Nature.
(d) Communication.

5. Who wrote June Light?
(a) E.E. Cummings.
(b) Robert Browning.
(c) Richard Wilbur.
(d) John Donne.

6. Who wrote When He Pressed His Lips?
(a) Steve Kowit.
(b) William Yeates.
(c) Virginia Wolf.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

7. What kind of poet was Christina Rossetti?
(a) Traditional.
(b) Turn of the Century.
(c) Abstract.
(d) Romantic.

8. What does Christina Rossetti compare her heart to?
(a) A bird.
(b) A dog.
(c) A deer.
(d) A cat.

9. What kind of love does Wendy Cope describe?
(a) Obsessive.
(b) Passionate.
(c) New.
(d) Impressionistic.

10. Who kills the man in The Eaten Heart?
(a) The angry wife.
(b) The jilted husband.
(c) The lonely child.
(d) The abused brother.

11. What does the man in To His Mistress Going to Bed say a woman needs to cover her at night?
(a) A man.
(b) Hair.
(c) Passion.
(d) A sheet.

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

13. What is the woman in At the Café trying to do?
(a) Find her husband.
(b) Move up north.
(c) Get a job.
(d) Write a book.

14. Who wrote Corrina's Going A Maying?
(a) Rudyard Kipling.
(b) Robert Hennick.
(c) Andrew Marvell.
(d) John Donne.

15. What is the deepest secret shared in I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)?
(a) He is in love.
(b) He has been unfaithful.
(c) He knows she is unfaithful.
(d) He is gay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduces each section?

2. Who wrote To His Mistress Going to Bed?

3. What is the woman in May I Feel Said He worried about?

4. How does the man in When He Pressed His Lips feel after his affair?

5. What is I'm Going to Georgia?

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