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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Blake find dead in a garden one morning in Poison Tree?
(a) His son.
(b) His friend.
(c) His father.
(d) His enemy.

2. Whom does Kennedy say everyone wants to be around?
(a) The ones who taught them the most.
(b) Their friends.
(c) The people who are happy alone.
(d) Their mothers.

3. Why can't the woman in The Widow's Lament in Springtime feel happy in the spring?
(a) She misses her husband.
(b) She is dying.
(c) She is too busy.
(d) She has put away happiness.

4. What disgusts Louise Gluck on the beach?
(a) The smell of the ocean.
(b) Women's bodies.
(c) A dead bird.
(d) The heat.

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

6. Where does steady pleasure come from in Fatigue?
(a) Rest.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Fame.

7. What must be put away during the most solemn industry according to Emily Dickinson?
(a) Anger.
(b) Memories.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Love.

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

9. What happens to George Santayana after the death of his wife?
(a) He comes closer to his children.
(b) He finds God.
(c) His age accelerates.
(d) He sees doors opening.

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

11. What does Kennedy say about her own experience as a mother?
(a) It is the best thing that ever happened to her.
(b) It was not at all what she imagined.
(c) It was the most rewarding path she could have taken.
(d) It was something she never saw for herself.

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

13. Who wrote Cosmetics Do No Good?
(a) Steve Kowit.
(b) Frued.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Richard Wilbur.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person in Keeping Things Whole realize when he is alone?

2. Who is described in the first poem of the section on beauty?

3. Whom does Kennedy talk about in the introduction to the section about beauty?

4. What does Sylvia Plath lose in Face Lift?

5. What kind of jewelery is mentioned in Puberty--With Capital Letters?

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