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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kennedy says parents become dependent on ____________.
(a) Their God.
(b) Their children.
(c) Their spouses.
(d) All of these.

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

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

4. What is discussed about death in Never More Will the Wind?
(a) The fear of death.
(b) The eventuality of death.
(c) The finality of death.
(d) The power of death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sylvia Plath lose in Face Lift?

2. Who asked the question, What do Women Want?

3. How does Elizabeth Barrett Browning say we should suffer grief?

4. How does Kennedy describe the person she talks about in the introduction to beauty?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Patterns about?

2. What is Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain about?

3. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

4. What message is sent in Grief?

5. What is Somebody's Mother about?

6. What is Summer at the Beach about?

7. What is I Stepped from Plank to Plank about?

8. What does the narrator of Remember want?

9. What is The Great Lover about?

10. What is Living about?

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