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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who wrote Love?
(a) John Donne.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Roy Croft.
(d) Al Henkman.

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

6. What does Kennedy say mothers do to give their children power?
(a) Believe in them.
(b) Teach them.
(c) All of these.
(d) Love them.

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

8. Who wrote Cosmetics Do No Good?
(a) Richard Wilbur.
(b) Steve Kowit.
(c) Frued.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

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

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

12. Who wrote We Know This Much?
(a) Caroline Kennedy.
(b) Sylvia PLath.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

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

14. What brought about early bedtime in Grown-up?
(a) The sun.
(b) Sickness.
(c) Tantrums.
(d) Father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kim Addonizio say women want?

2. Kennedy says parents become dependent on ____________.

3. On whom does Kennedy say her grandmother focused her attention?

4. What degrades one in As Much As You Can?

5. Whom does Caroline say her aunts wanted to look like?

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