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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Kennedy describe the person she talks about in the introduction to beauty?
(a) A compassionate soul.
(b) A mind ahead of her time.
(c) A loud voice.
(d) A trendsetter.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Who is described in the first poem of the section on beauty?
(a) Mary Magdalene.
(b) Jackie Kennedy.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Cleopatra.

12. When does Emily Dickinson say the most solemn industry happens?
(a) The hour of deliverance.
(b) The death bed.
(c) The cimax of sickness.
(d) The morning after death.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvia Plath lose in Face Lift?

2. Who wrote We Know This Much?

3. What is traded for knowledge in You Begin?

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

5. What brought about early bedtime in Grown-up?

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