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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many levels of meaning are in The Weather Cock Points South?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

6. What kind of poet is Gregory Corso?
(a) A Romantic Poet.
(b) A New World Poet.
(c) A Revolutionary Poet.
(d) A Beat Generation Poet.

7. Caroline says falling in love is ______________.
(a) A bunch of mistakes.
(b) A series of moments.
(c) Fulfilling destiny.
(d) Letting go to insanity.

8. Who wrote The Philosopher?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Edna St. Vincent Millay.
(c) Virginia Wolf.
(d) Katherine Garrison.

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

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

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

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

13. What is Valentine rhymed with in A Very Valentine?
(a) All of these.
(b) Fine.
(c) Mine.
(d) Divine.

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. How does Margaret Walker describe her grandmothers in Lineage?
(a) Abusive.
(b) Strong.
(c) All of these.
(d) Kind.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is Emily Dickinson's poem about breaking up?

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

3. How does the woman in The Philosopher think she should love?

4. Who kills the man in The Eaten Heart?

5. Who wrote To Margo?

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