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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. Who wrote Keeping Things Whole?
(a) John Donne.
(b) Robert Browning.
(c) Mark Strand.
(d) Lewis Godfrey.

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

3. What disgusts Louise Gluck on the beach?
(a) The heat.
(b) The smell of the ocean.
(c) A dead bird.
(d) Women's bodies.

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

5. What does Richard Wilbur realize his woman wants in The Catch?
(a) Adoration.
(b) A dress.
(c) Approval.
(d) Respect.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the mother's placed in Woman's Work?

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

4. How many states away is Ellen Watson's friend?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Roses Only about?

2. What does the narrator of Remember want?

3. What is The Great Lover about?

4. What is When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone about?

5. What is The Widow's Lament in Springtime about?

6. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

7. What is Secret Lives about?

8. What is Patterns about?

9. What is Death, Etc. about?

10. What is Magnificat about?

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