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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Bernadette Mayer want to buy for her friend?
(a) Tea Pot.
(b) Lingerie.
(c) All of these.
(d) Boots.

4. What does Kim Addonizio say women want?
(a) Respect.
(b) A red dress.
(c) To walk in beauty.
(d) Sex.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Who asked the question, What do Women Want?
(a) Freud.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) God.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What helped Kennedy's mother deal with the losses in her life?

2. Who is described in the first poem of the section on beauty?

3. How is the ritual in Hairwashing described by the daughter?

4. What does Kennedy say is the same in each stage of life?

5. Who does Marianne Moore say feed most on solitude?

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