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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Kennedy talk about in the introduction to the section about beauty?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her best friend.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) His sister.

2. What happens in each stanza of Nobody Knows But Mother?
(a) A question is asked.
(b) A person dies.
(c) A task is described.
(d) A tribute is made.

3. What is Rita Dove ready to fall in love with?
(a) A lonely woman.
(b) A man.
(c) A dog.
(d) A piece of chocolate.

4. How does Christina Rossetti want to be remembered?
(a) With a smile.
(b) With accuracy.
(c) With mercy.
(d) With fondness.

5. What does Kennedy say defines a mother's character?
(a) How she responds to solitude.
(b) How her children turn out.
(c) How her spouse treats her.
(d) How religious she is.

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

7. What is the tone of Bra Shopping?
(a) Angry.
(b) Pleasant.
(c) Surreal.
(d) Cryptic.

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

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

10. What kind of poet was Yeats?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Traditional.
(c) Renassance.
(d) Contemporary.

11. Whom does Seamus Haney write to in In Memoriam MKH (1911-1984)?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His wife.

12. Who does Kennedy say faces the greatest challenge in life?
(a) Those who involuntarily reach solitude.
(b) Those who have nobody to let go of.
(c) Those who never become independent.
(d) Those who never let go.

13. Who asked the question, What do Women Want?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Freud.
(d) God.

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

15. In A Poem of Friendship, what do friends not need in order to love each other?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Sex.
(c) Time.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kennedy describe the person she talks about in the introduction to beauty?

2. Who does Marianne Moore say feed most on solitude?

3. What happens to George Santayana after the death of his wife?

4. How does Kennedy describe the relationship women have with beauty?

5. When does the heart go forth in The Heart of a Woman?

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