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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is traded for knowledge in You Begin?
(a) Time.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Sanity.
(d) Love.

5. How does Kennedy describe having children?
(a) An introduction to love.
(b) A way to bring couples together.
(c) A transformational experience.
(d) Fulfilling the woman's role.

6. What does Kennedy say is the same in each stage of life?
(a) They last too long.
(b) They pass to fast.
(c) They bring pain.
(d) They are not what we expect.

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

8. To what is the person in Sense of Something Coming compared?
(a) A dress.
(b) A flag.
(c) A car.
(d) A light.

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

10. Who wrote The Summer Day?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Mary Oliver.
(c) Edna St. Vincent Millay.
(d) Julia Avarez.

11. What is the first step toward adulthood in You Begin?
(a) Breaking rules.
(b) Writing letters.
(c) Potty training.
(d) Telling a lie.

12. What helped Kennedy deal with the losses in her life?
(a) Friends.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Nature.
(d) Religion.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is traded for dolls in Puberty--With Capital Letters?

2. Who wrote Cosmetics Do No Good?

3. What does Kim Addonizio say women want?

4. Where is the mother's placed in Woman's Work?

5. What does Yeats fear in A Cradle Song?

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