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

4. When does Emily Bronte feel the happiest?
(a) When she is dreaming.
(b) When she is with her children.
(c) When she is making love.
(d) When she is alone.

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

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

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

8. What does Kennedy say nobody wants to be?
(a) Inexperienced.
(b) Young.
(c) Old.
(d) Middle aged.

9. 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 is the best thing that ever happened to her.
(d) It was something she never saw for herself.

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

11. What does Nikki Giovanni say is the most important part of friendship?
(a) What they are together.
(b) The love they share.
(c) Having a safe place.
(d) Not being judged.

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

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

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

15. 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.