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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Lover in Song of Solomon feed upon?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Lilies.
(c) Sex.
(d) Love.

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

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

4. In A Type of Loss, what does the woman lose when she breaks up?
(a) Her future.
(b) Her whole world.
(c) Her confines.
(d) Her freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. In what form is The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia written?
(a) Limerick.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Prose.
(d) Couplet.

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

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

14. What does Rudyard Kipling say over and over about The Female of The Species?
(a) It can protect better.
(b) It lives not in fear.
(c) It is more deadly than the male.
(d) It has a stronger heart.

15. When does true love come about according to Hero and Lysander?
(a) After a trial.
(b) When minds meld.
(c) When bodies meld.
(d) At first sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Weather Cock Points South?

2. What does the man in To His Mistress Going to Bed say a woman needs to cover her at night?

3. What is the tone of Lilacs?

4. What does the man in Protocols hope the sun will burn away?

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

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