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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of jewelery is mentioned in Puberty--With Capital Letters?
(a) Tongue ring.
(b) Ear ring.
(c) Nose ring.
(d) Belly button ring.

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

6. What is the friend's name in Letter to N.Y?
(a) Laura.
(b) Lana.
(c) Lily.
(d) Louise.

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

8. How does Kennedy describe the relationship women have with beauty?
(a) Frustrating.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Prosaic.
(d) Natural.

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

10. What does Yeats fear in A Cradle Song?
(a) The loss of innocence.
(b) The responsibility of having a child.
(c) Losing his wife to his child.
(d) Losing his child to death.

11. What does Sylvia Plath lose in Face Lift?
(a) Her age.
(b) Her wisdom.
(c) Her identity.
(d) Her confidence.

12. What is the main concern for the couple in Death, Etc.?
(a) Their dying son.
(b) Which of them will die first.
(c) What to do with the man they killed.
(d) How to arrange their will.

13. Why does William Blake want Hayley to be his enemy?
(a) For friendship's sake.
(b) To add drama to life.
(c) To solve a mystery.
(d) For good writing material.

14. What game does Sharon Olds play in Socks?
(a) Ninja Death.
(b) Dinosar Dance.
(c) Storm Troopers.
(d) Astronaut Landing.

15. Whom does Caroline say her aunts wanted to look like?
(a) The movie actresses.
(b) Their brothers.
(c) Their mother.
(d) Themselves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bernadette Mayer want to buy for her friend?

3. Whom does Seamus Haney write to in In Memoriam MKH (1911-1984)?

4. Who does Kennedy say faces the greatest challenge in life?

5. Who wrote Cosmetics Do No Good?

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