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

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

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

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

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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Caroline say her aunts wanted to look like?

2. What does Sylvia Plath lose in Face Lift?

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

4. How does Christina Rossetti want to be remembered?

5. Whom does Kennedy talk about in the introduction to the section about beauty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Somebody's Mother about?

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

3. What is Patterns about?

4. What is Older, Younger, Both about?

5. What is Summer at the Beach about?

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

7. What message is sent in Grief?

8. What is The Great Lover about?

9. What is if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have about?

10. What does the narrator of Remember want?

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