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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 Kim Addonizio say women want?
(a) To walk in beauty.
(b) Respect.
(c) A red dress.
(d) Sex.

2. What does Jo McDougall invite into her home after a short reprieve?
(a) Love.
(b) Memory.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Grief.

3. What helped Kennedy's mother deal with the losses in her life?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Nature.
(c) Religion.
(d) Friends.

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

5. Who wrote The Summer Day?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Julia Avarez.
(c) Mary Oliver.
(d) Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tone of Bra Shopping?

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

3. Who is described in the first poem of the section on beauty?

4. What does Yeats fear in A Cradle Song?

5. What is discussed about death in Never More Will the Wind?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is The Great Lover about?

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

4. What is The Poems of Our Climate about?

5. What is Somebody's Mother about?

6. What does the narrator of Remember want?

7. What is Living about?

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

9. What is To Flush, My Dog about?

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

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