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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) Feelings.
(b) The ordinary.
(c) People.
(d) Nothing.

2. What fruit is mentioned in June Light?
(a) Pear.
(b) Plum.
(c) Apple.
(d) Grape.

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

4. Who wrote I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Andrew Marvel.
(c) E.E. Cummings.
(d) Christopher Marlowe.

5. What kind of imagery is used in The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
(a) Emotional.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Natural.
(d) Abstract.

6. What did Roger want most when he was with Monika?
(a) To make love.
(b) To get away.
(c) To hit her.
(d) To make her his.

7. Kennedy says marriage is the foundation of ___________.
(a) Society.
(b) Families.
(c) Peace.
(d) Government.

8. Who wrote In An Iridescent Time?
(a) Ruth Stone.
(b) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(c) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

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

10. What does Emily Dickinson compare herself to?
(a) A bee.
(b) A barge.
(c) A bird.
(d) A boat.

11. What does Wendy Cope think little else of?
(a) Passion.
(b) Sex.
(c) Love.
(d) You.

12. What literary device is used heavily in To Margo?
(a) Cacauphony.
(b) Irony.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Alliteration.

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

14. What do female poets often support?
(a) Charities.
(b) Fundraisers.
(c) Small families.
(d) Social causes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of poet is Gregory Corso?

2. Who wrote To Margo?

3. According to Kennedy, what is marriage?

4. What does the woman in The Eaten Heart swear to never do again at the end of the poem?

5. Who wrote I Do Not Love Thee?

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