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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Caroline say becomes extraordinary in love?
(a) The ordinary.
(b) Nothing.
(c) People.
(d) Feelings.

2. Who wrote Song?
(a) Caroline Kennedy.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) John Keats.

3. Who introduces each section?
(a) The poet.
(b) The cupid.
(c) The historian.
(d) The editor.

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

5. What color is the flower in The Weather Cock Points South?
(a) White.
(b) Violet.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

6. Where does Emily Dickinson hope to seek refuge?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her family.
(c) Her bed.
(d) Herself.

7. What does Caroline explain in each section?
(a) What changed in the poems.
(b) Her life experience.
(c) How she feels.
(d) Why the poems were chosen.

8. What is being written to in Letters from Storyville?
(a) A boarding school.
(b) A work house.
(c) A prison.
(d) A government official.

9. What is Emily Dickinson's tone in her poem about breaking up?
(a) Upset.
(b) Ambivalent.
(c) Happy.
(d) Relieved.

10. What does the woman in The Eaten Heart swear to never do again at the end of the poem?
(a) Make love.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Eat meat.
(d) Live till morning.

11. What is the woman in May I Feel Said He worried about?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The man's wife.
(c) Losing her virginity.
(d) Being overtaken.

12. According to Kennedy, what is marriage?
(a) The ultimate committment.
(b) The way to replace passion with real love.
(c) The pursuit of love and strength over a lifetime.
(d) The end of searching for love.

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

14. What does the woman in Lilacs love most?
(a) The lilacs.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Passion.
(d) Herself.

15. What is Hero and Leander?
(a) An Anthem.
(b) A play.
(c) A song.
(d) A sonnet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what style are the section introductions written?

2. Who wrote A Very Valentine?

3. What is wrong with the husband in I'm Going to Georgia?

4. What is the awkward encounter described by Gregory Corso in Marriage?

5. What did Roger want most when he was with Monika?

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