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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote A Very Valentine?
(a) W.W. Phelps.
(b) John Keats.
(c) Caroline Norton.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

2. What is the tone of Lilacs?
(a) Dark.
(b) Happy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Reminiscent.

3. What is the second section called?
(a) Making Love.
(b) Having Love.
(c) Keeping Love.
(d) Finding Love.

4. In what style are the section introductions written?
(a) Sonnet.
(b) Prose.
(c) Couplets.
(d) Lists.

5. What is I'm Going to Georgia?
(a) A folk song.
(b) A tribute.
(c) An anthem.
(d) A prose poem.

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

7. How long is Weaponed Woman?
(a) 20 words.
(b) 2 stanzas.
(c) 2 lines.
(d) 2 pages.

8. When does Christina Rossetti feel the most love?
(a) Her anniversary.
(b) Every day.
(c) Her birthday.
(d) Her wedding day.

9. Where does the man in June Light hear his lover's voice from?
(a) The window.
(b) The radio.
(c) The orchard.
(d) The wind.

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

11. Who wrote To His Mistress Going to Bed?
(a) William Yeates.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) John Donne.
(d) Andrew Marvell.

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

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

14. What is the woman in On Monsieur's Departure unable to cut?
(a) Her emotional bonds.
(b) Her maternal instinct.
(c) Her political connections.
(d) Her fear of loneliness.

15. What is the occupation of the woman in In An Iridescent Time?
(a) Prostitute.
(b) Wash woman.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Waitress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote June Light?

2. What is the woman in At the Café trying to do?

3. What does the man in Protocols hope the sun will burn away?

4. Why is the man in Corrina's Going a Maying so urgent?

5. What do female poets often support?

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