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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the woman in I'm Going to Georgia want to live?
(a) A cabin.
(b) A coffin.
(c) A hotel.
(d) A mansion.

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

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

4. How big is the house in Madam and Her Madam?
(a) 20 rooms.
(b) 8 rooms.
(c) 12 rooms.
(d) 2 rooms.

5. What kind of passion does the woman in On Monsieur's Departure want?
(a) Gentle.
(b) Mutual.
(c) Real.
(d) Kindled.

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

7. To what does the person in Song compare love?
(a) A cherry.
(b) An apple.
(c) A pear.
(d) A fig.

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

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

10. What was a joy to the mother in Night Waitress?
(a) Getting home to a sleeping house.
(b) Putting out bright underwear to dry.
(c) Being flirted with.
(d) Knowing her children would do more than her.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hero and Leander?

2. Who wrote Song?

3. According to Kennedy, what is marriage?

4. What is the second section called?

5. In The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, the countess says she was wounded with __________.

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