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

2. Whom does Caroline say her aunts wanted to look like?
(a) Their mother.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Their brothers.
(d) The movie actresses.

3. What must be put away during the most solemn industry according to Emily Dickinson?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Love.
(c) Anger.
(d) Memories.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Nikki Giovanni say is the most important part of friendship?

4. What is the tone of Bra Shopping?

5. Who wrote Cosmetics Do No Good?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Death, Etc. about?

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

3. What is The Poems of Our Climate about?

4. What is We Know This Much about?

5. What is The Book of Ruth, 1:16-17 about?

6. What is The Dream That I Told My Mother-in-Law about?

7. What is "to my last period" about?

8. What does the narrator of Remember want?

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

10. What is Older, Younger, Both about?

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