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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What degrades one in As Much As You Can?
(a) Silence.
(b) Lack of solitude.
(c) Lack of schooling.
(d) A bad relationship.

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

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 misses her husband.
(d) She is too busy.

4. Who is Louise Gluck's best friend?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her cousin.

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

6. On whom does Kennedy say her grandmother focused her attention?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her grandchildren.
(c) Her pets.
(d) Her students.

7. What does Jo McDougall invite into her home after a short reprieve?
(a) Grief.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Love.
(d) Memory.

8. 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.

9. How does Sharon Olds feel about her son in Socks?
(a) She regrets having him.
(b) She is afraid of him.
(c) She loves him.
(d) She resents him.

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

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

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

13. To what does Linda Pastan compare babies?
(a) Beets.
(b) Trees.
(c) Birds.
(d) Dreams.

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

15. Where is the mother's placed in Woman's Work?
(a) Her art.
(b) Her children.
(c) The yard.
(d) The housework.

Short Answer Questions

1. What choices does Kennedy say are the most important?

2. Who wrote We Know This Much?

3. Why does William Blake want Hayley to be his enemy?

4. What kind of jewelery is mentioned in Puberty--With Capital Letters?

5. How does Christina Rossetti want to be remembered?

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