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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) The love they share.
(b) Not being judged.
(c) Having a safe place.
(d) What they are together.

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

3. Why can't Bernadette Mayer buy her friend what she wants?
(a) Her friend is dead.
(b) She has no money.
(c) Her friend is sick.
(d) She is too far away.

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

5. To what does Linda Pastan compare babies?
(a) Trees.
(b) Birds.
(c) Beets.
(d) Dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernadette Mayer want to buy for her friend?

2. Who wrote We Know This Much?

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

4. What does Kennedy say defines a mother's character?

5. Who wrote High School Senior?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is The Rhodora about?

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

3. What is Secret Lives about?

4. What is Magnificat about?

5. What is Somebody's Mother about?

6. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

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

8. What is Roses Only about?

9. What is Older, Younger, Both about?

10. What is Patterns about?

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