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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote I Do Not Love Thee?
(a) John Keates.
(b) E.E. Cummings.
(c) Caroline Norton.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

2. How does the man in When He Pressed His Lips feel after his affair?
(a) Bitter.
(b) Amazing.
(c) Fuzzy.
(d) Empowered.

3. What is wrong with the husband in I'm Going to Georgia?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He is cheating.
(c) He is poor.
(d) He is a drunk.

4. Where do most of the men work in Night Waitress?
(a) Offices.
(b) Factories.
(c) The rail road.
(d) The Army.

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

6. What is the tone of I Do Not Love Thee?
(a) Sardonic.
(b) Anticipatory.
(c) Giddy.
(d) Loving.

7. In To My Dear and Loving Husband, how does the woman hope to stay with her husband after death?
(a) By staying faithful.
(b) By dying together.
(c) By getting married.
(d) By loving him so intensely.

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

9. When was Roger McGough with Monika?
(a) The spring.
(b) The fall.
(c) The summer.
(d) The winter.

10. What was broken in Protocols?
(a) Love.
(b) Fidelity.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Marriage.

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

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

13. How do the people in A Very Valentine feel?
(a) Upset.
(b) Giddy.
(c) Content.
(d) Anxious.

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

15. Who wrote To Margo?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) John Donne.
(c) Gavin Stewart.
(d) Andrew McCoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doe Lady Mary Chudleigh tell women not to do?

2. What kind of mill does the woman in I Want You Woman Up North to Know work at?

3. Where does Emily Dickinson hope to seek refuge?

4. What does the woman in Lilacs love most?

5. What happens to the fruit in June Light?

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