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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Keeping Things Whole?
(a) Lewis Godfrey.
(b) Mark Strand.
(c) John Donne.
(d) Robert Browning.

2. How is the ritual in Hairwashing described by the daughter?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Pointless.
(c) Strange.
(d) Uplifting.

3. Why does the person in We Know This Much know that death is not a good thing?
(a) It feels too scary.
(b) She had a dream.
(c) There is no proof.
(d) The gods don't die.

4. What does Kim Addonizio say women want?
(a) To walk in beauty.
(b) Respect.
(c) Sex.
(d) A red dress.

5. What choices does Kennedy say are the most important?
(a) The first choices.
(b) The religious choices.
(c) The transition choices.
(d) The firm choices.

6. What brought about early bedtime in Grown-up?
(a) The sun.
(b) Father.
(c) Sickness.
(d) Tantrums.

7. Why can't Bernadette Mayer buy her friend what she wants?
(a) Her friend is sick.
(b) She is too far away.
(c) She has no money.
(d) Her friend is dead.

8. What does Richard Wilbur realize his woman wants in The Catch?
(a) A dress.
(b) Adoration.
(c) Respect.
(d) Approval.

9. What does the person in Keeping Things Whole realize when he is alone?
(a) How little he means.
(b) How his love has affected him.
(c) How he can reach his goals.
(d) How he balances the world.

10. When does the heart go forth in The Heart of a Woman?
(a) The high noon.
(b) The dawn.
(c) The pitch dark of night.
(d) The sunset.

11. How does Elizabeth Barrett Browning say we should suffer grief?
(a) Privately.
(b) Fully.
(c) Silently.
(d) Openly.

12. What is traded for dolls in Puberty--With Capital Letters?
(a) Punishment.
(b) Friends.
(c) Aging.
(d) Rebellion.

13. What does Kennedy say mothers do to give their children power?
(a) Teach them.
(b) All of these.
(c) Believe in them.
(d) Love them.

14. Who does Marianne Moore say feed most on solitude?
(a) Dancers.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Artists.
(d) Men.

15. Who wrote Love?
(a) John Donne.
(b) Roy Croft.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Al Henkman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helped Kennedy's mother deal with the losses in her life?

2. In A Poem of Friendship, what do friends not need in order to love each other?

3. Who wrote Cosmetics Do No Good?

4. What is the main concern for the couple in Death, Etc.?

5. Who wrote The Summer Day?

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